Outstanding Phone Calls

Ronald Yuill, a technology teacher at Tecumseh Middle School in Lafayette, Indiana

Most teachers have had to make phone calls home to the parents of students that cause trouble in their classes. If teachers want to pick-up their own day, they can call a parent of a student that has done something outstanding. This will catch parents off guard and they will be happy a teacher called. Notes work too, but the teacher doesn't receive the instant good feeling from the parent.