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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Belonging Starts Here: Helping Students Feel at Home

Newly arrived immigrant students feel belonging when teachers notice, support, guide, and provide early social activities and extracurriculars that build friendships.
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

As a middle school teacher, I often called parents to share good things about their kids. It built trust with families.

When I was a middle school teacher, I thought the school principal was being unrealistic when he strongly encouraged all of his teachers to spend the month of September and the first weeks of October making short phone calls to their students' homes. "Catch your students doing something good, I don't care what it is, and call their parents and guardians to tell them about it," he said. And no, shooting off a quick email does not count, he also said.
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