Dear Parent,
I’m writing to ask you to help me become a partner with you in your child’s education. I will only have your child for a short time – just one fleeting school year – and I want to make a contribution that lasts a lifetime.
I know my teaching must begin with making your child feel at home in our classroom, and with helping all the children come together into a distinctive learning community made up of particular unique individuals, each with his or her own learning style and interests and history and hopes.
Would you help me teach well by taking a moment to write me about your child? What is he or she like? What are the things that you, as a parent, know that would be important for me to know? What are your child’s interests? I want to know how your child thinks and plays and how you see your child as a learner and a person.
Thank you so much and I look forward to learning more about you and your child as the year begins!
Sami Strauss
I’m writing to ask you to help me become a partner with you in your child’s education. I will only have your child for a short time – just one fleeting school year – and I want to make a contribution that lasts a lifetime.
I know my teaching must begin with making your child feel at home in our classroom, and with helping all the children come together into a distinctive learning community made up of particular unique individuals, each with his or her own learning style and interests and history and hopes.
Would you help me teach well by taking a moment to write me about your child? What is he or she like? What are the things that you, as a parent, know that would be important for me to know? What are your child’s interests? I want to know how your child thinks and plays and how you see your child as a learner and a person.
Thank you so much and I look forward to learning more about you and your child as the year begins!
Sami Strauss