Student-Led Parents Night

Student-Led Parent Nights

What's the Purpose?

• To promote parental involvement by allowing students to talk one-on-one with their parents about their successes and their shortcomings.
• To encourage students to become more comfortable in their presentation and planning skills by conducting the student/parent conferences by themselves. 
• To promote creativity, responsibility and ownership within the students and their work.
• To increase parent and student interaction as students “show” parents a true sample of what it is like to be in Junior High as walk through their classes of the day.
• To be a fun and interactive way to help break down any walls that may have been hindering communication between student and parent.

 What, When & Where?

Students will plan, prepare and conduct their own Student-Led Parent Nights in lieu of a Parent/Teacher conference. These Parent Nights will take place one evening from 4pm-8pm on a come-and-go basis. They will be held every nine weeks around report card time. The student will take their parent to each of their classes in order that they go each day giving them a synopsis of their assignment portfolio, learning accomplishments, classroom rules, class projects and learning tools used in each class. Parents will have an opportunity to speak to the teacher as well.

How are Students & Parents involved in the plan?

Each student will be responsible for collecting completed assignments, journal entries, projects and teacher comments from their classroom file (all approved by the teacher). They will present this to their parents going over each one in detail. The students will show their parents around their room; noting the teaching tools and resources in that classroom, introducing them to their teachers, going over 9-weeks grades and going over their syllabus for the next quarter. The parent will have an opportunity to speak with any of the teachers if they so choose, but only after the student has finished with their presentation. Then the student will take their parent to their next class to do the same thing again, repeating each process with their next class of the day.

How will you get the word out?

Students will create individualized invitations giving parents an agenda of classes they will be visiting along with things they will be covering during the meeting. Parents will RSVP to the teacher. These invitations will be supplemented with the daily school announcement emails sent out and on the school marquis in front of the school. It will also appear more in depth in the monthly newsletter that is sent home with students.