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This is a Weebly website created by Laura. Bonham, an elementary/middle school teacher. This website is a great example of how a class website can be used to keep parents up to date and informed about what is going on in the classroom. It includes things like dates, school supply needs, and homework.

This example of a functional Weebly website was created by a teacher. All updates for students and parents are located in this colorful and fun theme. Many helpful resources for her students can also help those in need of extra practice and homework.

Padlet is another way to collaborate with students or parents who want to quickly and easily post something for anyone to access. There is an option to post anonymously. It's a great tool for feedback or questions/concerns or even a way for parents and students to talk to one another.

This is a tool to involve parents by keeping track of their child's behavior in class.

This is a tool to involve parents by keeping track of their child's behavior in class.

This is a tool to involve parents by keeping track of their child's behavior in class.

This is a website that allows teachers, parents, and students to communicate with the teacher.

This is a website within classjump.com (collaboration tool) that one school created so teachers, faculty, students, and parents can collaborate and keep open lines of communication. From this site, you can view any teachers lesson plan for any particular class, as well as, get updated on upcoming events. Within this one site, there are many subpages that are easily organized so that any teacher, student, or parent can access the information they need. Assignments, payments, events, and many other things have been collaborated on this one website to make communication at any level much easier.

The link is to a Pinterest page that has many creative ideas on how to keep open communication and collaboration between teachers and parents.

Almost all teachers worry about that first parent teacher conference. By having answers to these 20 Questions in advance though, teachers can get a jump start on the conference and ease those pre-conference jitters.

This is a great Teacher to Parent communication tool. Parents are able to directly engage with students' work.

An article discussing the way members of the LGBT community come to have children as well as the affects of being raised by LGBT parents.

This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.

Reading Rockets is a reliable, applicable resource for teachers to use in their classroom and lesson planning. We have found that this website also contains valuable information pertaining to the many benefits of parents being involved and a part of the classroom community. It shows the positive effect a relationship and communication with a teacher has on the parents, the student, and the teacher. This website will add a lot of important information to our lesson and the people we are trying to reach.

How parenting has changed since the marriage equality decision was made by the US Supreme Court

I chose this site because it's an extensive article regarding how the marriage equality decision affects LGBT parenting. It's a full article from a peer reviewed journal from a search I performed using the OSU-Tulsa Library site. It's for teachers to learn more regarding how to understand these different families.

We think that these areas of the Digizen site will be of particular use and interest to you. Look for the digizen guide on each page - they are colour coded to show if the content is useful for teachers, parents and/or kids. Happy browsing!

This site has many resources for teachers, parents, and even students so that they can learn more about digital citizenship and what that looks like in their lives.

This is an article about how to get parents involved and the importance of it.

A teachers classroom blog for her first grade students. I thought this would make a good example for seeing what a classroom blog would look like and how it can be useful to the students and parents.

A good example of blog being used in the classroom. This first grade teacher uses hers to interactive and leave messages for the parents of her classroom.

This link was discovered on Pinterest. Kathy Cassidy is a first grade teacher and has a class website with blogs of her students on it. Check out how she uses online portfolios in the classroom to get her students' parents involved.

This link was discovered on Pinterest. Kathy Cassidy is a first grade teacher and has a class website with blogs of her students on it. Check out how she uses online portfolios in the classroom to get her students' parents involved.

Explains more about Wiki's and why teachers should use them to communicate with parents.

Mr. Marcinek's blog is ranked in the top 10 educational blogs of 2013. Mr. Marcinek is focused on explaining and stressing the importance of technology integration into classrooms while making sure that his readers understand the balance between technology and face-to-face learning. Edutopie.org is a great tool for teachers to use so that they can remind students and parents of upcoming events, and successfully communicate and answer questions outside of school.

I found this particular twitter page very resourceful to early childhood education teachers. Ms. Graboski, the owner of this page, likes to share teaching ideas on this page and post pictures of her students learning through fun games and activities. This is great place where parents can tune in and see what their children are working on in class.