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This week in EDUC 435, we were talking about Learning Experience 4, and how it helps us to look more deeply into our school that we are placed in. We will research our schools report card, and improvement plan, and devise a plan of action to help our school improve our student performance. The idea of a parent night at our school really stuck out to me, but I also have no idea how to go about planning one. Therefore, I want this blog for this week to be researching ways to make a parent night go smoothly. I think this will be very beneficial to all of us somewhere down the road, and I really want to hold my very own parent night next year! My school has dropped in math scores last year, so I will be trying to find a math parent night idea.

The Scholastic website - http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/top-5-ideas-parents-night, has a lot of cute ideas for a theme of a parent night, from decorating T-Shirts together, to a guessing a game that requires some addition. Scholastic also described each of the themes in great details, so you understand fully. Also, Pinterest has super cute ideas for parent nights! Just search Parent Nights for Elementary School in the search bar, and the possibilities are endless. However, what I was trying to research was more of how to plan a parent night, and the resources I need to successfully run a parent night. This is a PDF that is a checklist for a parent night that I think is very helpful for making sure that you have included these critical components of the parent - night. file:///Users/ambertownsend/Downloads/parent_workshop_event_checklist_for_planning_a_parent_night.pdf
Here is also another list of what to include which also mentions babysitting services, which I found to be extremely important for parents who may have little babies at parent night with them, so that they can focus on their student that is in school right now. 
I hope that this helps with planning your very own parent night! There are tons of resources out there, you just have yo look.

This ties into the NC Teaching Standard #1, because planning your own parent night, shows great teacher leadership. Especially as a student teacher in the Spring, this will be a big project for us to do to help our students, and impress our staff.