Welcome to our guide to Back-to-School Success: 31 days of tips, apps, recipes, and more to help you make this your family's best school year yet. Today, day five, includes everything teachers want you to know.
Once a year — sometimes twice — moms and dads take a seat in their child's way-too-tiny desks for parent-teacher conferences. It's a chance for parents to get to know their child's teacher and, more importantly, learn how their child operates in the classroom. While the teachers are happy to talk about your child's academic performance, there is more to school than grades. Unfortunately, a 10-minute time slot doesn't provide much time to discuss things like behavioral development and building confidence. And that's what educator and journalist Jessica Lahey thinks you need to know. Her New York Times article outlines some basics that all parents should know about their kids.
Here, we share the secrets that Lahey and other teacher want to tell you but don't always have the time to do so.
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