Elementary School
Launching Our Home and School Partnership via Virtual Open House Dr. Michael Allen, Principal
The 2020-21 school year launched its Elementary School Virtual Open House on August 27th. Parents and students, from Bangkok and around the world joined our collaborative grade level team of teachers as we launched important home and school partnerships. Open House provided parents with the opportunity to learn more about ISB’s approach to learning programs as well as the class procedures and expectations. Students of all ages are most successful when there is a strong home and school partnership where families are able to link learning from school to their homes. The responsibility for building partnerships between school and home rests primarily with school faculty, especially the school leaders. The ISB faculty and leaders provide parents with tools and strategies that allow them to link learning happening at school with their homes. Virtual Open House, weekly Friday ISB ES eNews, classroom updates to parents, student Seesaw posts, regularly scheduled “ES Parent Engage” workshops, Grade Level Curriculum Unit Overviews, and student-parent-teacher conferences are a sample of the tools used in the elementary school to support and empower parents. On behalf of all of us at the elementary school, thank you for participating in our ES Virtual Open House. We look forward to working in partnership with you this school year.
TOUCHSTONE Issue 1 / 2020-2021
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