7 Ways School Leaders can Reconnect with Parents during COVID

For school leaders working in these demanding and chaotic circumstances, the pressure is relentless, the options are limited. In a time of crisis, leaders must act swiftly and with foresight but also with careful consideration of options, consequences and side effects of actions taken.

• Communicate frequently with the help of online classes and Lernio. This will create a healthy relation among the parents and the school. Doing this right will help you retain families so you can emerge stronger. Strengthening trust by welcoming transparent and frequent dialogue.
• Schools need a tool beyond chat. On WhatsApp, multiple groups create a lot of confusion. Privacy is not there as numbers are seen by everyone.

• Assign an App for online classes like Zoom, Google classroom etc.
• Assign them individual or collaborative work.
• Assess learners’ understanding, make changes in the teaching strategy to improve overall learning.
• Provide individual learners with feedback on their work for further development.

• Encourages a close relation among teachers, parents and students.
• Share cognitive and affective development based on classroom observation.
• Learn from parents and guardians.
• Discuss issues that may be interfering with students’ learning and growth.

• Words of inspiration are just one of the many ways to motivate students.
• Sending a note, email, or text to a student’s parent or guardian will give the student a sense of pride that their teacher has taken the time to share something they have done well in class.
• Displaying students work in the class is an excellent way to celebrate their efforts.
• Create a one or two-minute video highlighting pictures of projects and classroom happenings.
• Feature interviews with students.

• Inculcate the pedagogy of the school.
• Develop lively and enquiring minds.
• Developing the pupil’s awareness of the spiritual, moral, social & cultural
  diversity of the world.
• Examples of work can be found on our school app.

• Share Monthly, Half Yearly and Final Progress through App.
• Encourage students by giving certificates for excellence as well as for
  participation.

• Parents can share their queries through school app where their queries are answered.