Parents and teachers are the ones who can make the biggest contribution to the learning and development of their children. If parents have positive expectations of their children, or practice homework and reading with them together, this could be advantageous to their learning career. Hence, it can be important for the school to support parents in creating these expectations and environments for their children.

In this episode we’re going to talk with Leendert-Jan Veldhuyzen and Leezan van Wijk about the collaboration between parents and teachers, and more importantly how you as a school leader can empower your teachers to also cooperate with the parents.

More information about:

Leendert-Jan Veldhuyzen is an executive board member of Stichting Kolom in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: https://www.stichtingkolom.nl

Leezan van Wijk is school head of Marnix Gymnasium in Rotterdam, The Netherlands: https://marnixgymnasium.nl

Fran Palokaj speaks with school leaders across Europa about a variety of topics based on ESHA’s HEADstart quality cards developed by Loes van Wessum, Rieneke Pruis and others. These quality cards function as practical tools that you can use to tackle everyday challenges within your organization. Visit https://www.esha.org/headstart to download the HEADstart cards.