While the CPC has often focused in the past on promoting communication, understanding, and common goals between parents and administrators, we also realize that the relationship between parents and teachers is equally important to the successful education of children. The November CPC meeting will provide an opportunity for parents to learn more about the work, needs, and goals of teachers in the Lowell Public Schools. The event will focus specifically on parent-teacher communication, as a panel of teachers and parents will discuss a set of "case studies" involving parent-teacher communication in challenging circumstances. The goal of the panel will be to more clearly define what teachers should reasonably expect of parents in such circumstances, and what parents should reasonably expect of teachers.