This episode is re-aired for summer as an invitation to refocus and recommit before the new school year, with a companion live workshop, Jumpstart Your Plan for Parent Partnership, on Thursday, July 30th.
Turn your school’s mission into a practical plan for extraordinary relationships with families next year by registering here.
What You’ll Learn:
How the Gottman Institute’s Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work applies to your school-family partnerships.
Practical ways to nurture appreciation and counter criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling with their antidotes
How the four pillars of “shared meaning” (rituals of connection, mutual support of roles, shared goals, and shared values and symbols) translate a school’s mission into everyday partnership with families
Why knowing each family’s hopes, background, and aims, build the trust that carries a relationship through hard moments
How to “turn toward” families through small, asynchronous mini-moments—and how to keep reaching out when parents don’t respond
The difference between solvable and perpetual problems, and how to welcome problem-solving as an ongoing relationship rather than a one-and-done fix
Chapters
00:00: Re-Air Introduction & Upcoming Workshop
01:44: Why Gottman’s Marriage Research Applies to Schools
06:19: Principle 1 — Create Shared Meaning
11:01: Principle 2 — Get to Know Your Families
15:34: Principle 3 — Nurture Your Appreciation
20:21: Principle 4 — Turn Toward Each Other
29:54: Principle 5 — Let Your Families Influence You
34:44: Principle 6 — Solve Your Solvable Problems
41:17: Principle 7 — Welcome Problem Solving
47:39: Listener Q&A
Q&A
When a parent comes to us already upset or critical, how do we respond without falling into defensiveness right away?
If a parent rarely responds to emails or school communication, how should we interpret that—do we keep reaching out, or give them space?
What about new teachers, fresh out of college, who are nervous about dealing with parents?
What are some small ways teachers can show appreciation to parents without it becoming another big task on their plate?
Learn more and register: Jumpstart Your Plan for Parent Partnership
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