Parent Conference Time!!! Woo Hoo!!!!

It's parent conference time again... I remember as a child sitting at home and waiting for my parents to get home from "The Parent Conference".  What would my teacher say?  What would my mom and dad say?  Why was it taking so long????  After one particularly brutal parent conference with my brother's teacher, my mom went to bed with a 3 day migraine!  My students are no different.  Some of my students will worry.  Some will be excited.  Some will just throw the parent conference notes away.

 So this year, several of the grade levels decided to give our parent conferences a Leader in Me twist... student led parent conferences.  Yup, we invited the students to not only attend their parent conference with their parents, but to be in charge of it!  Each student has a Leadership Notebook (formally known as our Data Binders) and the students are all familiar with the data. The teachers worked with each student to practice talking their parents through the notebook and analyzing their progress this year.  We talked about the data together.  We discussed areas for improvement and areas for celebration.  We looked at behavior and attendance.  Was there room for improvement?  What was the plan?  The kids were so excited!  We sent out the notices and the response was immediate and positive.

The parent conferences went great!  The kiddos came in with their parents, shy and smiling.  With a little encouragement and guidance, they talked about their progress and what they were proud of and what improvements they wanted to make.

 

 

 And their parents listened.  

 

And they were so proud!