Mary Beth, SchoolSpring’s Program and Community Manager has personal experience as a mother with three children in school and input from teachers around the country as a part of her day-to-day work. For years the process of parent-teacher conferences has been the same; the teacher hurriedly telling a parent about their child’s progress (mostly meaning their grades and participation in class) and not much time, if any, for discussion.   A quote from Education World’s piece on Student-Led conferences,  “But now, many schools are trying something new — student-led conferences that communicate not only how a student’s doing but also why”.(link to article) After personally attending over 60 parent-teacher conferences to date (2 a year for 3 children) I have been in classrooms with teachers who give a 2 minute speech about what … Read entire article »