I.    The Culture of Private School:  You’re in, now what?
 
II.   Tools teachers use to communicate with parents about student performance.
 
III.  Messages parents receive about student performance.
 
IV.  The importance of  parent participation in helping students to succeed.

V.  What to do when things don’t go according to plan.  Problem solving strategies and techniques to work through miscommunications, misperceptions, and misunderstandings about your child.

 Dr. Erica King-Toler is a New York state licensed psychologist and a tenured faculty member at John Jay College, City University of New York.  She received her doctoral training at Teachers College, Columbia University in counseling psychology.  Dr. King-Toler is a cross-cultural psychologist who specializes in helping practitioners to consider the impact of race, class, culture, gender and religious identities on their work with others.  She has worked as a consultant with area hospitals, universities and the NYPD to help improve their multicultural competence practices. She is a member of the New York State Association of Black Psychologists and the American Psychological Association.  She is the mother of three young boys two of whom are matriculants at a NYC independent school.