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ParentsExpanding Parent Access to Student PerformanceBy maureen on 06 May | 0 comments
Our verdict: While letting parents know about school meetings by text message is a great idea, being notified about a student’s routine absences may not be the best thing.
This week, the New York Times takes the expansion of parental notification a step further with development of instant, online student grade viewing technologies. Across the country, online programs like Edline, ParentConnect, Pinnacle Internet Viewer and PowerSchool (now used in more than 10,000 schools in 49 states—including Washington) are allowing parents to find out their children bombed quizzes and tests at the same moment as the students.
Debunking What it Means to “Home-School”By maureen on 24 Mar | 0 comments
A nation at war...By allisonm on 19 Feb | 0 comments
Don't close those doors!By allisonm on 13 Feb | 0 comments"It's not as much about opening doors as it is about not closing them."
This right-on-the-money point made at the Green River Community College (GRCC) math night on Monday stuck with me. We constantly talk about how math opens doors and try our hardest to drive home the fact that the more math you know, the more job opportunities you will have. But talking about how students can actually close (and lock!) doors by NOT taking enough math is an even stronger statement that I really like. Hats off to Seattle Public Schools and Explorations in Math!By maureen on 07 Feb | 0 comments
Weren’t we just talking about the value of community Math Nights for the parents and teachers? Thankfully, Seattle Public Schools got the message.
Math Night LightsBy maureen on 05 Feb | 0 comments
One of the best sessions I attended at the OSPI January
Conference last week focused on math. But it wasn’t about student WASL scores
or the new math standards or even math curriculum suggestions. No one argued
and no one bantered about whose district was doing what. Instead we were posed
with a simple question: Double 38.
Welcome to my home.By allisonm on 04 Jan | 0 comments
Hats off to Clark County WatchD.O.G.S.!By maureen on 03 Jan | 0 comments
Parents in Federal Way are lucky.By allisonm on 14 Dec | 0 commentsWell, maybe luck isn't the right word. Fortunate might be better. I've sang her praises before, but after watching Trise Moore, family advocate for the Federal Way Family Partnership Office, in action, I walked away thinking how fortunate Federal Way parents are to have a great leader like Trise in their corner.
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...with math that is. As we continue to scream "math and science matters!" at the top of our lungs to folks in Washington state who haven't gotten the message yet, more complexities surface with those who've known it all along.
"There's a direct connection between the number of words that a child hears at home and the child's literacy skills when they get to school." That's what Sarah Walzer, executive director of Parent-Child Home's national office, said in 
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