Report Cards
The following link gives helpful hints about writing comments on students’ report cards.  Descriptive vocabulary is very important here.http://teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/align/c16280,.htm

Grants
If you don’t want to spend most of your paycheck equipping your room and providing materials for your students, you may find yourself writing grants.  The following link is a nice long list of agencies and organizations that provide grants to teachers.
http://www.bsdvt.org/District/grants/teacherresources.htm

More sources, and tips for writing grants:
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic94.htm

More tips, and sources—especially for secondary teachers:
http://712educators.about.com/cs/grantwriting/a/grantwriting.htm

Notes Home
Notes home not only inform parents about their children and about what is going on in your classroom (good and bad), but they also inform parents about YOU.  Your notes say a good deal about your ability to express yourself in writing, you grammar, punctuation and word usage skills, and the care with which you want to communicate to parents:

Referrals
Teachers often write referrals—perhaps for testing for eligibility for special needs programs, sometimes to refer students to gifted and talented programs, often to community agencies or organizations for specific assistance.  Your ability to present your case in writing may impact the ultimate outcome of the referral process.  Below is a scholarly article about how teachers can control the fate of students who might be appropriate for the gifted and talented programs:
http://www.giftededpress.com/GEPQSUMMER2007.pdf

I.E.P.
Special education teachers must write IEPs for all their students. 
The following link is the archived information about IEPs.  Point number 8 in the following article discusses the writing of the IEP, but the entire document is a good refresher for the process. The second link is a site that prepares the teacher to write a good IEP:
http://www.ed.gov/parents/needs/speced/iepguide/index.html
http://specialed.about.com/cs/iep/a/ieparticle.htm

Newsletters
Many teachers are creating and sending classroom newsletters on a weekly or monthly basis.  While the newsletter may be created, in part, by the students, it is the teacher’s responsibility to make sure it is an example of excellence in writing.

The following Web site includes eight simple rules to follow when creating an email newsletter.  Although it is aimed at a business audience, it is applicable to education:
http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/writing/writing_newsletters.php

Get the students involved:
http://k6educators.about.com/od/classroommanagement/a/weeklynews.htm

Consider writing a teacher newsletter. 
Share the great ideas in and between schools:
http://www.newsletterwritingtips.com/newsletters/2006/08/18/how-to-write-a-parent-newsletter/

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