I currently teach at a boarding school and ds attends a different boarding school. My school will be having parent teacher conferences soon via zoom, but I haven’t heard a peep from ds’ boarding school. Are other boarding schools having parent teacher conferences?
Not ours. At least, not yet announced to us if so. We’ve zoomed with their academic advisors/point people, but that was on a getting to know you basis.
We had Zoom conferences and I actually really liked it! They were spread out over a week, which was nice, too.
Yes - thanks for starting this thread. Our school is having parent-teacher Zoom meetings starting soon - I thought this was very nice. These conferences are usually held during fall parents weekend. With parents weekend cancelled, we were not expecting any conferences calls and this was a nice surprise.
We are only having advisor zoom conferences, not sure why, not pleased.
I don’t have a BS student any more, but it would seem almost more important now than ever. Not every kid sails into the different learning style required of them now, and even where classes are exactly the same, enough other stuff isn’t, and a check-in could be so valuable!
@gardenstategal I totally agree, which is why I am disappointed. It would seem that with the zoom help and not needing to deal with parents on campus for parents weekend, school could at least make parent teacher conferences happen.
No parent teacher conferences on the schedule for our school. But I’m not too worried…they know how to find us. Thankfully, they have our kids back on campus and seem to be working hard to keep them there. If a whole bunch of Zoom conferences across different time zones and the inevitable IT glitches that come with them are an added strain, I’ll pass this year. Just keep my kids with their peeps, make it as normal as possible and we’ll chat latter.
This is ds’ first year at this school. We’ve never even set foot on campus. He’s been doing school via zoom since August but they’re bringing them to campus soon. They’ve had all-school zoom presentations, but nothing one on one with parents. I will be strongly suggesting it.
Cate did them last spring for “family weekend”. They worked great. They are planning on them for fall, too, but being that fall family weekend is next weekend, and the kids have only been there a couple of weeks, I expect they will have them later.
Super important this year for the schools to reach out. Hopefully they all do this.
Our school is planning to do a virtual parent’s weekend this fall with the zoom parent teacher conferences worked in, as they would’ve done had parent’s weekend been in person.
We just had our virtual conferences this past weekend…and a video address by the HOS
My kids’ point people just confirmed that their school does not do parent-teacher conferences as standard practice (apparently not even pre-Covid). Instead, you start with their point person (advisor) if/as needed, and then go on to an individual teacher only if/as needed. So far things are fine (I think) with our kids. But I wouldn’t mind an academic check in.
We are getting midterm grades at the end of the week, which in a normal year is followed by parents’ weekend when you would meet with the advisor as well as have short meetings with individual teachers. No such thing this year so I assume the advisor will reach out either by email or phone to check in. As for individual teachers, nothing formal is scheduled but I have never had a problem communicating with teachers so if there is something you need to discuss I would just reach out. Email and occasional phone call works well for this, not sure why we’d need a zoom here.
We just got our notice of advisor conferences. Instead of individual teacher conferences that would’ve been held in person, the advisor will be the contact person to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly with us.
I like the Zoom…interaction and dialogue is more helpful in all-around understanding of what is happening with my child than someone “telling” us through an email. It helps us be involved and I think it gives the advisor a better understanding of who my kid is and what he’s been communicating to us at home.