Change Project

 

    It was really tough to narrow down my change for this project. There are so many things that came to mind and I primarily wanted to focus on my multilingual learners but then rethought that idea and came to the conclusion, why not focus on one thing that will benefit all of my students. I believe that students learn best when they are encouraged by both their teachers and their parents and this can only happen if there is a working two way communication system between teacher and parents. So for this change project I want to create/develop a better system for having two way communication with families. In the past I have used Kinvo, newsletters, post cards home, and glow and grow notes but I have not had the turn around from parents that I have wanted. This tells me that I need to create something else that will get me the results that I want. 

    The reason why I wanted to focus primarily on my multilingual learners is because I would love to connect this to a previous project I have worked on and build off of it to create something that will be successful but I am not sure if that would change my project. In a previous assignment I focused on increasing parent engagement of my multilingual learners. So I am not sure if these can go hand and hand or if they could and should be two different change projects. I believe that back and forth communication between teacher and parents increases parent involvement so if I can target parent communication maybe in my second phase I can begin targeting parent involvement as well. I believe that positive communication between parents and teachers are essential to ensuring a positive impact on students' academic potential. Like Pierson said, every kid needs a champion and I believe that every kid needs a champion at school and at home.