Healthy and Honest Opportunities to Connect and Communicate with Parents
Our Why for Communication The definition of “communication,” according to Merriam-Webster, is “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through […]
Twenty-First Century Strategies for Effective Parent Communications
Report cards, interims, and parent-teacher conferences were once the mainstays of teacher to parent communications. An occasional newsletter or notice home or […]
Out of the Helicopter, onto Common Ground
Intro: As parents seek more involvement in their child’s education, let us lay out the welcome mat and explore ways teachers and […]
Civil Discourse as Kinship
One of the greatest blessings of living in the Western world is freedom of speech. While we often experience tension and disagreement […]
Healthy Communication
Linguist Deborah Tannen once wrote that male-female communication is like cross-cultural communication. She explained that boys and girls grow up in their […]
A Word to the Wise Guy or “You say Tonto, I say Toronto . . .”
“So now we’re supposed to create a class website that gives daily updates on assignments, grades, and student behavior,” muttered math teacher […]
Care-Full Words: Leveraging the Power to Deepen or Divide
Words. Words have power. Words echo in our ears and sink into our hearts. It doesn’t matter how hard the outer shell […]
Healthy Communication Among Teachers
To contribute to the theme of this issue of CEJ, our panel decided to tackle the issue of teacher-teacher communication. We began […]
Bad Language, Telling the Truth, and What the Commandments Say about Communicating
What Middle School Students Think I say to the middle school students, “So, what does the Bible say about language use?” “Don’t […]
What They Hear When We Speak
Among the teachers I remember gratefully is my history professor, Dr. Poland. No doubt I owe to him much of what I know […]