Phoning Parents: High-leverage moves to transform your classroom & restore your sanity

Mike Goldstein, the founder of Match Charter Public School and the Match Teacher Residency, provides practical, digestible advice about how to drive better teaching through better communication with parents. This book will help you systematically build relationships with parents that allow you to get more out of your students and stay sane as a teacher. This book provides a road map for professionals, offering specific tips on different types of phone calls and when to use them, how to manage various parent responses, and how to develop your own high-leverage calling routine with your parents. Phoning Parents is an essential how-to guide for teachers at all levels, school leaders, and anyone else who seeks to build great relationships with children and their families.

Mike Goldstein is the founder of the Match Charter School and the Match Teacher Residency in Boston, both now part of Match Education (www.matcheducation.org). Mike serves or has served on various advisory boards: transition teams for the past two MA governors (Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney), the National Council for Teacher Quality, Harvard's Futures of School Reform, Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium, Education Sector, and others. He received a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University and a B.A. from Duke University. Match Education is a Boston-based education organization. We run high-performing urban charter schools, train exceptional rookie teachers, and share what we learn with colleagues across the country.