Class+Calendar

(Kannapel, P., & Clements, S., 2005) (ASCD, 2005)

This page is the calendar for classroom and school events. Maintaining open communication and contact with parents is another universal theme in the research we have used in this class. Communicating with parents and keeping them updated with class happenings and events can be a way to close the cultural divide between school and home. Often, teachers and parents are only in contact with one another when there is some sort of problem, the child is in trouble, something has happened in the home, etc. I will communicate with parents often through various means (the calendar, this site, notes home, phone calls, emails, etc.) and for various reasons (when they see my phone number on the Caller ID, I don't want their first thought to be, "oh, Timmy's in trouble"). I stress the idea that if they have a concern or a question to contact me right away so that small issues do not turn into bigger ones.

The calendar is one way that I will be communicating with parents and keeping them in the loop. The calendar will list classroom events (celebrations, tests, project due dates, etc), school wide events, field trips, days that we do not have school, etc. This will make it easier for parents and students to find school information that they are looking for because it will all be in one easy to find place. I will also add students' birthdays to the calendar. In addition to school events and due dates, I will post information about the units we are learning in class. For students that do not have computer or internet access at home, I will provide the documents, including the calendar, on this site in hard copy format.

The calendar that you see now is just the Bullitt County Public Schools Calendar for next school year (Bullitt County is one of my top picks for school districts because I grew up there). The calendar is a Google Calendar so parents will be able to sign up for alerts, sync this calendar to their phones, and receive alerts if they so choose. If parents wish to do so, I will send them an email invitation to the calendar where they will be able to sync this calendar to their phones and receive updates but they will not have editing rights. If you click over to August, you will see that I have already input the school calendar for the first half of the school year. media type="custom" key="19142608"