Thank you goes out to the 50+ ES parents who attended our November 5 Parent Engage session! Our ES PTA Coordinators, Teresa Caravelli & Rika Gupta <pta-es@isb.ac.th>, launched the session by sharing a detailed update regarding next week’s Intercultural Week, one of our largest PTA parent partnership events of the year. Then the ES admin team and counselors facilitated a workshop focused on partnering with parents via the core principles of guiding students’ behaviour at home and school. We reviewed a variety of home/school strategies and tools, addressed parent questions, and reviewed the fundamental differences between typical peer conflict and bullying. All aspects of the workshop aligned with the ISB Culture of Care and these core discipline principles:
- Kind and Firm at the same time
- Build a strong sense of Belonging and Significance within the home/community
- Tools and strategies that work long term
- Focus on developing the long term social & life skills
- Solutions-focused problem solving
- Children develop a sense that they are capable
Please save these dates to join us for future ES Parent Engage sessions:
Nov. 26 – Virtual Parent Engage via Zoom – ES Community Virtual School Handbook @ 8AM https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82240982806
Jan. 21 – Growing Readers – Selecting Just Right Books, Reading Progressions and Skills
Feb. 4 – Growing Mathematicians – Math Foundational Skills and Skill Progression to High Level Mathematics
Mar. 4 – Growing Innovators – Design, Technology and Engineering Skills in the ES
May 13 – Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Your partner in education,
Michael Allen
michaela@isb.ac.th