“Student-led conferences allow us to take ownership of our learning. Only we know how we are doing and where we are running. There isn’t always going to be an adult there to help us,” said Payton, a ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A school in Queens is making parent-teacher conferences a thing of the past. CBS2's Hazel Sanchez reports PS/IS 119 in Glendale is turning to student-led conferences, where ...

This post is by Dino Mangano and Mark Friday, Deans of Culture at University Preparatory Academy in Detroit, Michigan In one of the most provocative posts that has appeared in this blog, Jal Mehta ...

I can clearly picture my eight-year-old self staring out the large window, waiting for my parents to come home from my parent-teacher conference. I wanted to know what my teacher said, how I was doing ...

Monica R. Martinez is the author of "Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the 21st Century." Updated June 1, 2016, 12:11 PM I can still remember the ...

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“Focus on your mantra,” I told myself. “Breathe in and out, go to your zen place,” my inner voice whispered. I wasn’t practicing yoga or daily meditation. I was preparing for parent-teacher ...

From that point on, I transitioned to student-led conferences with elementary students. That first year they took 45 minutes per child, and I was meeting with students and their parents during my ...

It’s conference season—the time of the year when parents and teachers meet to discuss each student’s progress. In most schools, this is a private conversation between the child’s teacher and parent(s) ...