Iowa 1:1 Institute Bringing Meaning Back to High School Parent Teacher Conferences.

Iowa 1:1 InstituteBringing Meaning Back to High

School Parent Teacher Conferences

ObjectivesO Provide a method to collect

feedback from high school parentsO Share ideas and strategies that

workO Discuss challenges to changing the

way parent teacher conferences are conducted

O Share how technology can aid in making high school conferences more meaningful

APTTO Academic Parent Teacher TeamsO Liesl Burgher-EDL 271 PresentationO Arizona elementary modelO Recognized by US Dept. of EducationO EDL 271 Presentation

What is APTT?O Academic Parent Teacher TeamsO Increasing student academic

learning and performance by enhancing the quality of parent-teacher communication and collaboration.

O Three 75-minute team meetingsO One 30-minute individual

APTT Meeting AgendaO Welcome and IcebreakerO Review of grade-level foundation

skills O Sharing dataO Modeling and practicing learning

activities O Setting short-term goals O Developing classroom networks

Carroll High SchoolO Spring Conferences O Traditionally 3-5% parent attendanceO The parents who most need to

attend don’tO Teachers stationed in their

classroomsO Prior to 3rd quarter grades posted

newerO Less attendance than Fall

conferencesO Little communication home

Parent Survey1. CHS is planning on providing short informative

sessions for parents during Spring parent teacher conferences. Please rate the below topics in order of interest to you

2. Are there any other topics not listed above that you would like information on as a high school parent at conferences?

3. Which of the following option(s) would make the conference format better for you?

4. What else might improve the the high school parent teacher conference format that was not listed above?

5. Which evening do you anticipate coming to parent teacher conferences this Spring?

Parent CommunicationO Personal phone calls home

O At-risk parentsO Students getting D’s and F’sO Teacher requests

O Letters sent homeO Alert now messageO SurveysO District website

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ResultsO 4% parent turnout in Spring 2013 to

28% in Spring 2014O Parents who attended praised changesO Teachers observed positive changesO More parents came with students who

were struggling academicallyO Parents appreciated short informative

sessionsO Teachers were still productive

Parent Feedback

Future ConsiderationsO Improve parent attendance to 80-90%

O Focus on specific parents based on student need

O Would there be an option for electronic conferencing?

O Focus on meaningful informational sessions

O Childcare for parents with children?O A meal to get parents to conferences?O APTT Model Concept for high school?

Contact Information

Trent Grundmeyer Liesl [email protected]@cr.k12.ia.us(515) 205-9987 (319) 538-2242Twitter: @tgrundmeyer Twitter: @liesl_b

Tammie [email protected](712) 792-8010Twitter: @tmckenzie