Communications

Opportunities for communication at ACDS are both flexible and frequent.

• Back-to-School Night introductions to faculty, curriculum, and individual teachers; opportunities to visit classrooms where teachers and parents can discuss daily schedules, curricular goals, and homework expectations.

• Regularly scheduled parent-teacher conferences, which include clarification of goals for each child's education as well as teacher Evaluations of each child's progress.

• Teachers are open to and expect parents to schedule meetings with teacher(s) as soon as possible when questions or concerns arise.

• The Friday Flier, a weekly newsletter for parents.

• Regular communication from teachers about activities in the classroom, homework assignments, and schoolwide events.

• Twice-yearly grade-centered parent coffees with the Head of School and others about subjects of interest to parents.

• A voice-mail system to speed teacher-parent communication.

• E-mail addresses for every administrator and teacher.

• The Head of School actively solicits and responds to parent ideas and comments in person, by phone, or by e-mail.

• A faculty recruiting brochure updated annually to reflect current statistics at the school and which is sent out to prospective faculty candidates.

• The ABCs of Kindergarten, a publication aimed at new kindgarten families designed to inform them about what to expect in their new school.

• Changes, our student literary magazine.

• The Leaflet, our newsletter, is published between four and six times a year. It is of general interest to current families, alumni, alumni families, grandparents, and friends of the school.

• The Annual Report contains information on annual giving, capital giving and gala donations

• The Oracle is the school's yearbook.

• Our website, www.acdsnet.org, which provides up-to-the-minute news and information about all operations and activities at the school.