1st Night of Our Spring Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences a Success

Successful Night #1 of Spring Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences

On Thursday, April 6, NMS parents and students with the help of their teachers engaged in Student-Led Conferencing (SLC) as well as Parent-Teacher Conferences during our first evening of our Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences.  The night might have been dampened by the rain and weather outside, but the spirit of the evening was definitely one of learning.

Students in all grades partook in explaining to their parents how they were progressing with the standards and with their own personal work towards mastering standards. 

Students grabbed their Chromebook and would show their parents their work examples and talk them through where they might have been in the beginning of the school year, how they have improved so far, and what they still need to do to improve.  

It was awesome to see how much our students were impressed with themselves.

Parents were also impressed with their children.  Many, many parents appreciated the format that we have been piloting for over two years now with their children talking their parents through their learning and not just having to stand in line to have the teacher talk about their child for only a couple of minutes.  Parents like the timing and what they were able to get out of the evening in terms of hearing their child explain their own learning.  In many of the classrooms, teachers used the time to sit with the parents even as the students went over their work.  Our teachers loved to be able to show off how impressive our students are with their learning.

All the while all the learning and explaining were going on, our NMS PTA helped Ms. Walgreen with the Spring Book Fair in the Media Center.  

This Wednesday, April 12, is our second night of Spring Conferences from 6 to 8:30 PM; we hope to see everyone else here for this spectacular example and celebration of student learning.

Here are some more pictures from the evening.