Texting: A simple path to building trust


Texting: A simple path to building trust

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Brief texts can help schools build a stronger partnership with parents of middle school students.


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Early adolescence brings with it the perfect conditions for students to become disengaged with academics. For many students, this period coincides with the transition from elementary school into middle school, which offers a more complex academic environment than elementary school: Teachers tend to face different kinds of time and resource constraints, and students tend to experience stricter discipline, less robust teacher-student relationships, and fewer opportunities for autonomous decision making (Anderman & Maehr, 1994; Duchesne et al., 2009). Further, this transition occurs alongside a series of physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that result, for students, in increased desires for autonomy (Anderman & Maehr, 1994; Sanders, 2013) and changes in the parent-child relationship (Eccles et al., 1993).

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