Teacher Vacancies Mid-Year: Principal’s Corner
Mid-year teacher vacancies is tough! The teachers I worked with knew that choosing to leave mid-year was not an option in my mind. Studies show that students who have...
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How Vulnerability Can Be the Key to Getting Parents Engaged
Natalie is a 2nd grade teacher in one of Possip’s partner schools. Recently, she talked with our team about parent engagement, and how she got over her fear of...
Why You Should Take A School Tour
In many of our districts and schools across the country, we are starting to enter a time period where parents will need to choose where their child goes to...
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. ...
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...
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 are...
7 Notes of Inspiration Educators Can Borrow from Martin Luther King, Jr.
As we commemorate Martin Luther King's birthday and enter Black History Month, it is timely to consider what lessons we can learn from Martin Luther King and apply to...
Educating is hard. Let parents help!
The original opening for this blog post shared a real life scenario highlighting how hard educators' jobs are. The scenario happened just last week to a school counselor I know. ...
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Leaning Into Small Parent Turnout: Starting Where You Are with Parent Engagement
You may have heard of the book "Good is the Enemy of Great". It is a wonderful book that outlines why we don't have great organizations because we're willing...
Successful School Newsletters: The Secret Sauce
Kimberly Robinson has been a Teacher, Family Engagement Specialist, and leader of after-school programs for the YMCA. She brings all of these experiences to help Possip school partners maximize...