Communication

Welcome Back to School!

First of all, things are a little nutty in pandemic world, and perhaps your class schedule is taking a hit. If so, here’s a weekly schedule template to help you get everyone on the same page.

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A Look Back at 2021

We prepared a list of top tips and insights we gathered from 2021. Take these best practices into consideration when creating your next school newsletter so you can start the new year feeling more prepared than ever.

Christmas Newsletter

12 Holiday Newsletter Ideas from Real Educators

We’ve gone through the many holiday newsletters uploaded to the Educator Hive, our newsletter template center, and made a list of the 12 most popular content topics in holiday and Christmas newsletters today!

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School Communication & ESSER Funds

If your school or district is eligible for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds (ESSER) that Congress allocated for K-12 schools in the wake of the pandemic, you might be wondering what types of technology make sense for you to purchase.

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6 Ideas for Engaging Class Communications in 2022

Since 2020, communication between educators and families became more important than ever. Here are 6 ideas for engaging content you can include in your next school newsletter, to help keep parents in the loop with everything that's going on.

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School Newsletter Template: Christmas Newsletter!

It’s beginning to look a lot like... Christmas Newsletter time! If you need a school newsletter that will help you communicate the magic and joy of the season in the days and weeks leading up to Christmas vacation, this template is for you!

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School Newsletter Template: Celebrate the Holidays!

The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is always a challenge! This holiday template aims to help you with just that. You’ll find links to all kinds of info about how and what the rest of the world celebrates in December...

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7 Ways to Get Parents to Open Your Emails

Like all of us, parents are super-busy, and it can be incredibly difficult to reach them with critical info. According to recent data, email open rates in the Education sector average only 25%, meaning that important school emails are getting lost in the clutter.

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School Newsletter Template: National STEAM/STEM Day

It’s actually National STEAM/STEM Day, a perfect day to dive into activities that communicate to all students that they can be innovators, inventors, and even NASA scientists in the here and now, not to mention in their futures.

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School Newsletter Template: IEP for ELL Families

Rethinking school communications so that they’re accessible for everyone makes all families feel welcome. So why not put an IEP on a school newsletter with translation features? Use our template!

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5 Communication Tips for School Librarians

As technology becomes more ingrained in classrooms and libraries, the very nature of school librarians has changed, as well. We recently spoke with school librarian Elizabeth Graham who shared her five keys to successful library communication.

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School Newsletter Template: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving itself is an interesting study in communication — how a holiday gets articulated over time -- and the first article in our Thanksgiving Newsletter explores the history of the holiday.

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School Newsletter Template: Native American Heritage Month

With the crackle of leaves underfoot, we welcome in Native American Heritage Month (aka American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month) in November. And yes, we’ve got a school newsletter template for that!

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School Newsletter Template: Using Translation to Engage Families

In the US, one in five students speaks a language other than English at home, which means there are A LOT of parents who are experiencing the disorientation that I’ve felt. This is why translation is so important – it opens the gate to families who aren’t comfortable yet with English.

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School Newsletter Template: Happy Halloween

Boo! I love school Halloween. I know the sugar crash is intense, but the creativity and the spirit of joy is magical, especially after last year! This school newsletter template is in the spirit of making Halloween educational, fun, delicious, and inclusive.

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School Newsletter Template: Parent-Teacher Conference

This year, many schools will be conducting parent conferences remotely. Since some parents and caregivers won’t be accessible by video conference, we’ve gone ahead and created a parent-teacher conference form template for you.

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School Newsletter Template: Indigenous Peoples’ Day

We've created a school newsletter template to help you share resources and communicate around Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Monthly Theme Template

School Newsletter Template: National Bullying Prevention Month

So much of bullying happens in interstitial spaces — those in-between places where there’s no active supervision -- like the bathroom, or Instagram.

Book Report

School Newsletter Template: Spicing Up Book Reports! 📚

I’ve always been a big reader, but wow, the feeling of dread that used to creep into my soul whenever I was assigned a book report... For some reason, nothing felt more tedious.

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School Newsletter Template: Resources for Teaching about Autumn

A school newsletter template for the fall season! This template celebrates autumn as only a teacher can, with resources for the classroom!

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School Newsletter Template: National Hispanic Heritage Month

Every year, we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15. This National Hispanic Heritage Month template offers you a variety of resources.

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3 Principles of Successful School Communication

"That's really a part of the philosophy that I have when I approach parent communication, is that it's really critical that families understand that they have a say and that we're listening to them."

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Upgrading your School Newsletter: Time Management

Time is not a commodity educators can spare; so, creating a school newsletter good enough to be read by hundreds or thousands of parents and faculty can be daunting.

Communication Strategies

Back to School Newsletter Template: Classroom Rules Poster

Here’s a template for you that offers an initial set of classroom guidelines that cover the basics of how we want students to manage themselves and their work, and how they treat others.

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Smore’s School Newsletter Template Center Gets a Makeover

The Hive has been a lifeline for many of our educators this past year. Making sure that our newsletter template center is not only a source of inspiration and resource but that it is also accessible and easy to navigate, has been at the top of our priority list.