2020 Workshop Talk | 1:01:39 | All Grade Levels, Admissions, Leadership & Strategic
Summary
For many educators, collaborating with parents can be unwieldy, if not downright intimidating. Yet parents play an irreplaceable role in the education of a child, and our efforts to collaborate with them are worth the effort. In fact, collaboration can be a joyful endeavor! In this session, we’ll survey a long-term strategy for building effective school-parent collaboration; we’ll zoom in on key principles, like vision-casting, communication/ feedback, and workshop training. While this presentation is from the perspective of a shared-instruction school (with a university-style schedule), it’s intended to be generally applicable to any classical educator who wants to
maximize fruitful parent involvement.
Speaker
Bret Billman has been the head of school of Providence Preparatory School (a classical and collaborative school) since it opened in August of 2011. His wife Sarah teaches Kindergarten at Providence, and he has two children at the school. Bret received a BA and MA in English literature from Baylor University, and has taught various levels of secondary English, over the years . He loves the art of teaching, and considers it a great joy to lead a community of teachers, co-teaching parents, and students in the great pursuit of wisdom and virtue.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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