4 Tips to Quickly Communicate Academic Progress
Parents want to know how their child is doing academically. Schools can often feel pressure about the best ways to share this information without overburdening teachers or current systems. There...
Immigrant Families Navigating Family Engagement
Isha is a current student who just started her sophomore year at Emory. She is passionate about the immigrant experience and interned with Possip this past summer and is...
Build Lifelong Learning Thru Parents
Every city is officially back to school. Yay! This means we're also back to working with parents, schools and districts on building community and improved parent engagement. Possip is a...
Parents Need A Sense of Belonging Too! 7 Tips to Help Parents Belong
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. – Brene Brown In Possip’s work with schools and districts, we’ve noticed something. Teachers and schools...
Navigating a New School District
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When Kate and her family relocated from Portland to a new, larger district this Summer, there was a lot of new. A new job,...What If the Principal Rode the Bus?
What if the principal rode the bus? During my third year of teaching, I got an email with a sign up sheet for all the different bus routes during the...
How to Increase Parent’s Engagement in Student’s Success with Digital Technology
Engaging and maintaining parent engagement isn’t easy. Yet parents play a significant role in the academic success of their children so engagement can’t be ignored. Multiple studies show big...
Buses and Cars, Oh My!
As many of our Possip schools in the South finish up their first week of school - car lines and buses are top of mind for schools and parents.
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The Gift of Feedback Part 2
contributor Nicholas "Knick" Dixon is a public school administrator, anti-racism advocate, and feedback junky based in Greensboro, NC. Billionaire businessman and philanthropist, Warren Buffet, once said, “genuine feedback is a gift.” I tend...
Summer Slide: Worry? Or Nah…
Summer slide. Is it a real thing? Research is mixed. A University of Texas professor says it...
