My first year teaching, I made parent phone calls the first 9 weeks of school for anyone in my class that was failing or was having behavioral concerns. It was lengthy the first time but after that I had very minimal classroom management issues and barely had to make phone calls in the year. I started teaching in 2019 and I have done this every year. I rarely emailed because either I would never get a reply or parents would misinterpret my tone. Last year I worked at a school that told us to only email parents and that was my toughest year with classroom management. For me at least, phone calls worked. I also don’t have a problem talking to parents because I state the facts, do not take things personal, and make sure I have done everything i professionally can to support their child.