 One of my most important jobs as a teacher is to develop the relationship between my students, parents, and myself. One way that I do that is by sending home positive, encouraging notes about their student each week. And so one way is that I send home a little piece of paper just to half shoot a paper. It could be on a note card if you'd like. I just said sending smiles and I might name their child and I'll say they put a smile on my face this week by just giving random examples. It could be academic by something they work really, really hard at. It might be something behavioral like I really appreciated Olivia helping her classmates or her table mates out by helping clean up that caddy. Something as simple as that lets the parent know that the teacher is looking and watching and paying attention to their child. And as a parent myself, I know that it matters that if I know those teachers are caring about my child individually, then I feel more invested as a parent. And so building a parent-teacher relationship is so key. Another way that you can do that, many of us use technology. And so you could send a little video message home. Many of us use apps that we can video message parents on or even just a simple text home. Saying something the child did positive that day so that when we do have our parent-teacher conferences or we do have to email home or call home with something that's not so positive, the blow isn't quite as hard or the information isn't quite as negative because we have already built up their child and sent home positive messages. So we want to make sure that we're sending just as many positives home as those concerns that sometimes we have to bring up or the hard news that we have to tell parents at parent-teacher conferences. So I encourage you to build that parent-teacher relationship. It will prove to pay off in the long run. Try this in your classroom today.