A New Year’s Resolution for Educators & Parents

                The onset of each New Year brings the opportunity to make resolutions for the New Year.  Resolutions are supposed to help us improve specific areas of our lives.  There are resolutions to lose weight, spend less money or stop smoking.  These are all noble resolutions.

However, if you are a teacher or a principal, some of your resolutions should seek to improve the academic achievement, student engagement or supporting struggling students.  Making resolutions that seek to improve students is necessary for any teacher or principal and should be considered equally as important as resolutions to lose weight, spend less money or stop smoking. 

 

                Parents  should also be making resolutions for their children that seek to improve academic achievement, engagement or a struggling child.  Parents should not only make resolutions to support their child in school, they should also share their resolutions with their child and encourage their child to make resolutions to improve academic achievement, engagement and areas where they are struggling. 

 

                Unfortunately many teachers, principals and parents do not make resolutions that seek to improve academic achievement, student engagement or support struggling children.  Yet we continue to wonder why our schools and students are underperforming.