[aisle] Good behavior letter to parents?

Tue May 24 10:44:30 CDT 2022

I have been working this year as a parapro at Normal West HS this year and
I like a similar idea they have here school wide where any staff member can
send a notecard home with pre printed lines on it to write your words of
appreciation about a student.  This definitely could be a year round thing
for libraries too.

Chuck Atteberry

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 2:24 PM Holtz, Alan C. (BMS) via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Yes, it definitely ripples.
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> Sincerely,
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> Alan, Librarian serving Brooks Middle School
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> "What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks
> about education."
> - Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
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> *From:* AISLE <aisle-bounces at list.railslibraries.info> *On Behalf Of *Michelle
> Shippy via AISLE
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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.
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> 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.
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> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:41 AM Meyer, Gail via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Gail Meyer, Librarian
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> TF South High School
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> 708-585-2197
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> gmeyer at tfd215.org
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Chuck Atteberry
Unit 5: Pepper Ridge Elementary/Towanda Elementary
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