Written by Christine Cooke Fairbanks
August 27, 2024
Parent engagement in a student’s learning is a powerful way to improve student outcomes. This means that a top priority of education policy overseeing K-12 public schools in Utah ought to be increasing parent engagement.
For parents to be engaged constructively in student learning, they must first be informed about what their student is learning. In the absence of reasonable parent access to information about what a student is learning during the year and each week, as well as to the instructional materials teachers are using in the classroom, a parent is condemned to ask one of the most ineffective and unengaging questions ever devised for a student: “What did you learn in school today?”
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