How to make a teacher fall in love with you

Back to school season is fast approaching and now is a great time to think about how you might volunteer  in your child's classroom. Every study I've read shows that kids do better academically when their parents are actively involved in their schoolwork and education. Of course not everyone has the time and energy to be  class parent or even assistant class parent. But we all have talents that a teacher can put to good use. Love to knit? Bake? Golf? Make model airplanes? Scrapbook? Go share your special skills with a classroom full of kids.  Last year my husband Rob went into my nine year old daughter Gracie's classroom to teach the fourth graders all about his particular passion: filmmaking. The kids were thrilled. So thrilled, that this year Rob is going back to run an after-school program on filmmaking for kids. Check out one of Gracie's movie: She's demonstrates how to build a stick chair in about a minute!