Module 6 — The Phone Call

It's Friday at 3 PM.

You've been at school all week. Your dashboard is open in front of you. There's one student — your assigned student — and you've decided you need to call their parent before the weekend.

The parent is going to pick up. You have about 30 seconds before they say "what did they do?"

What do you say?

Write your script.

Two or three sentences. No more. Use what you saw in your dashboard. Don't blame the kid. Don't blame the parent. Tell them what the data shows and what you'd like to do about it.

"Hi, this is [Your Name], calling from school about your student..."

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One last reflection.

Pick the one statement that's most true for you right now:

I could actually make this call now. I couldn't two hours ago. I want to learn more about this — there's something here I didn't know I cared about. It feels like a lot. But I see why it matters. I think differently about what 'being a teacher' means now.

Final check.

You finished.

Two hours ago you couldn't read a gradebook. Now you can spot patterns most working teachers miss. You found Sofia. You understood Period 3. You challenged your own assumptions about IEP students. You built a one-page early-warning dashboard. And you wrote the hardest sentence in teaching: "I'm calling about your child."

This is the first skill of being a data-literate educator. The AU School of Education will give you the rest.

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