[aisle] Good behavior letter to parents?

[Holtz, Alan C. (BMS)]

Okay, I'll be off on a tangent for a moment... I love this thread. This isn't just the end of the year thing. It should be all year.

We are teachers. Part of our job is contacting home. It is critical to make a positive contact early in their school career. Hence, I reach out to about 20 households a day for the first month and a half of the school year. Any student that I think may have "too much energy," I go out of my way to call home with a reason to make the positive call really really early in the year.

My personal favorite was I once called a parent to thank them for the nice polite child they have. The parent then asked me, "Are you sure that you have the right child?" It was the first positive call they have had since he was in 1st grade... As the year went on, I understood why they never experienced a call like that. Yet, a few years later, when the student was in 8th grade, he asked me why I called two years earlier. As we chatted, he revealed that he was always "on his best behavior" (yikes) when he visited, because I reached out early in 6th grade.

Yes, it definitely ripples.

Sincerely,

Alan, Librarian serving Brooks Middle School

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I don't think you need to mention when and why the students are coming into the library.  Just make it more general and express your appreciation for the students' overall good behavior and positive interactions you may have had.  As a mom of a student who had major impulse control issues when he was younger, I would audibly moan when I saw his name in the subject line of an email, so I always appreciated when someone from school took the time to let me know he was doing a great job.

And you'll be amazed how writing these emails will make you smile as well; we spend so much time harping on the negative that the act of acknowledging the positive will have a ripple effect.



On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:41 AM Meyer, Gail via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:aisle at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
My admin suggested that I send an end-of-year email to the parents of some of my library regulars (here during their lunch hour), letting them know their student has been a pleasure to have in the library. I do like the idea since so many messages home are bad news, but am having trouble wording it.

I definitely don't want to include anything about book checkout, it just would be a quick note to say x student is friendly, polite, and a pleasure to see each day in the library.

Am I potentially outing kids who are avoiding the cafeteria and possibly getting them in trouble at home?  Should I say something to the student first?  Or am I overthinking? Anyone done something like this, or see anything else that could be problematic that I'm missing?

Gail Meyer, Librarian
TF South High School
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