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I have been playing around with the idea that I want to increase parent and family engagement based on the belief that students learn best when when families are involved and connected.

I saw that in particular this spring during virtual learning when parents struggled to help their children based on lack of understanding of expectations. Our kindergarten team worked to develop clear kid friendly "learning targets" for the final trimester. What I learned when I shared those with parents is that they were "parent friendly" too. 

I would like to create and expand on those clearly defined learning targets based on the first and second trimester. I will use Padlet as a digital tool to share with my families.

I would also like to use Padlet to house student and family friendly content and resources to support learning.  

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  1. LesleyJuly 7, 2020 at 7:40 PM

    I'm sure this has continued to evolve -- but I love the way you are thinking about this. Use this project to push yourself to enhance this digital tool for your families!

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  2. Christina CJuly 9, 2020 at 6:26 PM

    Hi Elieen, I loved your presentation today! I think that using Padlet is a great way to organize parent resources. This is an idea that I would like to try next year. Thank you so much for sharing!

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