Classroom Connection is a two-page newsletter (on legal sized paper) that is published six times a year (although schools can choose to do fewer issues). 

The lead stories in past issues have included:

• Pre-teens and reading: The road to academic success is paved with books

• Cheating - A problem now more than ever: What families can do to help prevent it

• Helping your child handle stress during the middle school years

• Every day math: Helping your middle schooler master mathematics

• Bullying - New solutions to an old problem

• Staying the course academically during the middle school years

• Safety in cyberspace: Taking an active role in your middle schooler's "online" life

• Summer fun: Creative suggestions specifically geared to pre-teens

• Helping your child overcome test anxiety

• Practical tips to help your middle schooler: GET ORGANIZED for school success

• Peer pressure - It isn't all that bad - Helping your child form positive friendships

• Bully-proofing your child

• Parents and their middle schoolers: Staying connected at a time when everyone feels a little unplugged

• From slacker to scholar: Helping to motivate your middle schooler

Click on the linked items below to see PDF versions of some issues of Classroom Connection. 

• Fonda-Fultonville School District March 2003

• Monroe-Woodbury School District June 2003

These newsletters include practical ideas for parents on how to help their children at home, as well as books, Web sites and other resources to learn more about the main topic.

Each year we come up with a new story list, always tapping into the teachers and administrators at our client schools for their ideas on what junior high or middle school parents want to know more about. We also give schools the opportunity to choose from the lead stories in any of our back issues. 

Besides the generic stories, there is space for each school to include its own stories and information on the back page. This information can either submitted to us by the school, or we can assign a communication specialist to come into your building to interview people and write the stories.

Schools distribute the newsletters in one of three ways:

• Mailing home to parents

• Sending them home with students

• Including them in the student report cards

The cost of this newsletter for the 2005-06 school year is:

• $245 per issue for districts that already subscribe to the Communications Service. This price covers the lead feature story and layout of each issue. Printing is additional, based on the quantities needed. Under this arrangement, your back page copy is written by a communications specialists in the time allotted under your current contract with the Communications Service.
  

• For districts that don't otherwise subscribe to the Communications Service there are two choices:

1. $345 per issue (plus printing) if district personnel write the school-specific back page copy; or

2. $845 per issue (plus printing) if you hire one of our communications specialists to write the school-specific back page copy (10 hours writing/issue)

Please contact us to view more copies of the newsletter and to get a specific price quote for your district that includes printing.