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 96% Attendance at Meet the Teacher Night

9/22/2012

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This Blog entry is going to be nice and short...in fact, at first I wasn't even sure if this was even worth blogging about...but I just have to share my most EXCITING moment this week:

      96% attendance on Meet the Teacher Day! 

Seriously...I went home and did a happy dance!  As many of you know I have been on a quest to improve communication with my students' parents.  Last year I started my class website mrszvi.weebly.com and invited parents to start emailing me, and I think those were great moves, but it didn't really improve my communication with parents as much as I had hoped it would.

So, this year I turned to the telephone! 

During the first week of school, I called every family, introduced myself, and personally invited them to the Meet the Teacher night!  And it worked! They came!

Lesson learned.  How does one get almost perfect attendance?  Call. Call every single family and they will come!  


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Joy Kirr link
9/22/2012 12:23:45 pm

Gallit,
Your hard work paid off! I remember your tweets about calling parents, and I remembered when we used to do that at our school. It's all automated now. I'm sure I did not get 96% from my classes! I'm so excited for you! Don't you love it - you had a grand goal, you put extra effort and changed it up a bit this year, and voila! Good for you! Not only did YOU benefit, but so did the parents, and ultimately, your students!!

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Anne-Marie Middleton
9/23/2012 12:34:46 am

Gallit, that is truly amazing. I know what a feat it is to accomplish what you did. I bet the parents were happy to be personally invited by you. You are an awesome example of what great teaching looks like!

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Michaelyn Hoven link
10/15/2012 06:18:15 am

That is fabulous!! How valued all of those parents must have felt, receiving a personal invitation to attend.

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9/11/2014 07:49:05 pm

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