Meet Our Team – Michael Dyer
Michael is one of the newest members of the Possip team and has already started to play a vital role in helping Possip reach more schools throughout the country. We...
Principal’s Corner – Reflecting on Parent Engagement as a School Leader
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash In Amanda’s second year as a principal in Dallas, she knew she needed to make parent engagement a priority. She’d returned to the school district she’d originally taught in...
Principal’s Corner: 8 Steps to Building an Effective Parent Organization
A recent 2018 survey from the Learning Policy Institute (https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/nassp-understanding-addressing-principal-turnover-review-research-report) found that the fifth highest factor that would help principal retention (behind pay, increased PD, time, and school budget) is...
Partner Feature – Nashville Classical
Nashville classical was one of Possip's first partner schools. Their enrollment, parent happiness and teacher satisfaction are all inspiring. We wanted to talk to them a bit about their family...
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 sharing...
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 are given...
Navigating a New School District
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash When Kate and her family relocated from Portland to a new, larger district this Summer, there was a lot of new. A new job, a new city, and,...
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...
