Public Service Announcement-- Parent Portal*

At Meet the Teacher this year, I helped (or tried to help) parents log on to Parent Portal to get their kids registered for school.  I helped them navigate the emergency release and enrollment forms.  I even answered a few questions about signing up for PASAR.

But please don't forget, parents, Parent Portal is for more than just the "beginning of school" logistics! 

You have access to your student's academic performance.  There are MAP, CogAT, and STAAR test scores. Once your child is in the third grade and above, you have access to the grade book and can monitor even more closely how well he/she is doing.  The school is not the sole keeper of all the data!

Plano does an awesome job of making it incredibly easy for you to be a part of your child's education.  There are even links with every score report, explaining what your student's scores mean. Of course, if you still have questions, we're more than willing to walk you through the data.

Log on.  Click around.  Figure it out.
Then do it again in a couple of months.
And again in the Spring.
And at the end of the year.

At Christie, we always want you to feel empowered to be a major part of the conversation when discussing your child's success.  Embracing Parent Portal for all it has to offer is a great way to start!

*This post was inspired by my forgetfulness to check on my own kids. I have to remind myself to log in every now and then too! But if you can remember, it's worth it!