Currently, the communication our program most uses between parents and staff is the Weekly Progress Report. This note home is standardized and quite confusing for parents. I think what makes it most confusing is the amount of information it tries to cover. The parent comment section has only been used about 10 times in the past three years, in my experience. While knowing your child's learning style is important, it may not matter if you don't know what a learning style is to begin with.
If I were redesigning our communication, I would make it more user friendly by simplifying the boxed areas. Parents should be able to understand, in a simple manner, what their student is doing through the week. The behavior section would be redesigned to simply tell what infraction the student lost points for instead of organizing it by hours of the day. If a student only loses one point for sleeping for an hour, then that is what they will do--sleep for that entire time. My new progress reports would also be visually pleasing by using white space and the Corbin Redhound graphic.
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