The SILT brain-stormed ways to ensure information could be delivered to families and for families to inform school and staff members in a timely manner. The school received twenty-eight parent conference forms. Fourteen percent rated them poor. The only two issues presented to the School Advisory Committee by parent members focused on transportation. These issues were resolved and plans were made to prevent other incidents of this nature.
Some teachers report that they communicate several times a month with parents on email.
Also, we need to develop a cadre of parents to communicate with parents who often do not communicate with the school. The benchmark chairperson posted a chart outside the computer lab to collect data regarding the subject areas into which technology was integrated at each grade level. Teachers routinely contributed to this chart from September 1999 through April 2000. The chart below indicates samples of student work done this year. Most of this instruction was provided in the computer lab.