Dear Island Trees School Community,

Naturally, one of the important elements for student success is a strong partnership between parents and teachers. To accomplish this goal, the Island Trees School District has made it a priority to improve communication with parents. Clearly, we want to ensure parents are aware of their child's progress throughout the school year. Often enough, we have heard parents are unaware of the homework, class assignments, upcoming tests or the current course of study. In order to make our parents more aware, we have asked our staff to reach out to parents to ensure they are well informed. We hope this will help the parents support and reinforce our classroom goals. In fact, many more teachers have asked that parents sign tests, quizzes, and assignments, so they have a clear understanding of their child's weekly progress.

At our elementary schools, classroom teachers have developed weekly classroom newsletters to keep parents abreast of classroom happenings and assignments. Most of the middle school teachers reach out to parents through the use of "homework on-line". The link to all of the middle school teachers can be found at: http://www.islandtrees.org/itms/hw/MMSteacherpages.htm. At the high school, the core area teachers distribute weekly assignment sheets to students. The high school staff plans to email these assignments sheets to parents as well.

If you have questions about parent communication, your child's progress or extra help, please contact your child's principal or teacher. In closing, the district believes a stronger parent-school partnership will improve academic achievement. Our staff truly values our parents and their continued support of our schools. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Charles Murphy, Superintendent of Schools

Dr. Charles Murphy
Superintendent of Schools
CMurphy@Islandtrees.org