Having open communication between home and school is an essential part to the educational team working together to meet a student's needs. Families provide invaluable information that the educational team needs to take into account when planning for interventions such as likes and dislikes, medical and behavioral information, and information about routines or schedule changes. This information can be used in planning goals for increase success in the real world as well as when adjusting task demands to address the child's changing needs from day to day.
Similarly, educational teams provide a wealth of information about the student that can be essential to their success outside of school. Information about independent functioning and academic achievement helps the family better meet the child's needs and allows them to assist in generalizing skills at home and in the community. Also, for some families, they rely on the communication from the educational team to know what their child did all day. The child may not be able to reliably communicate the day's events which can make talking about the day challenging.
Teams should develop consistent modes of communication between home and school. Furthermore, students benefit from being involved in the communication to work on their recall and communication skills. Previously we have shared a variety of ideas for Home-School Communication on our previous blog post which can be found here:
Today's Organization Station will be sharing even more ideas for Home-School Communication.
The examples below focus on the student's school day and incorporate picture symbols for the students to mark the events of their day as well as space for staff to include notes.
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| Therese Garison Helke Elementary, Vandalia |
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| Robbie Whorton Trotwood-Madison High School, Trotwood |
These examples are differentiated based on the students writing ability and are done as an independent writing activity at the end of the day. What a great functional writing task!
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| Katy Boston Morton Middle School, Vandalia |
And these examples are for home communication:
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| Jennifer Jette Vandalia-Butler High School, Vandalia |
The following examples provide room for both home and school communication.
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| Rylie Jarrett Stevenson Elementary, Mad River |
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| Lisa Bauer Northmont Middle School, Northmont |
In addition to daily recall sheets, there are other ways for families and teams to communicate. We love this hallway bulletin board with handwriting tips for parents,
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| Kiser PK-8 Elementary, Dayton |
this envelope for transporting important documents such as progress reports, conference forms, or IEP documents,
and this clever stamp that can be used to communicate the student's level of independence on academic work.
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| Wit and Whimsy Special Ed |
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