2024 Parent/Teacher Conferences Information
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
Dear Parents/Guardians:
A strong partnership with parents/guardians and teachers is key to ensuring our children’s success. One important component of that partnership is parent/teacher conferences. This is an opportunity for us to meet, celebrate your child’s progress, and discuss goals for continued growth.
Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Thursday, November 14th from 12:15-8:15 p.m in a hybrid format. Half of the day is formatted for virtual conferences and the other half is allocated for in-person conferences. The times listed below are the format for both types of conferences, and are consistent at all four district middle schools. When you sign up in Skyward for your conferences, the virtual or in-person formats will be listed. At the middle school level, once spots are taken in each format (in-person or virtual), there will not be additional times available to sign up through Skyward.
All individual Parent/Teacher Conferences need to be scheduled online, in advance, through your parent Family Access account. You may sign up for time slots beginning on November 4th @ 7:00 a.m. All conferences, regardless of core or encore teacher, must be scheduled online.
- Virtual Conferences: 12:15 - 3:45 PM
- In-Person Conferences: 4:00 - 8:15 PM
Important Details for Scheduled Conferences
- Online sign up in Family Access will only work using your parent login. If you still need a username and password, please email FamilyAccess@wlcsd.org or contact the Family Access hotline at 248.956.2190.
- Online sign up will be available November 4th @ 7:00 a.m. and stay open until November 13th @ 7:00 AM
- Parent/Teacher Conferences will take place virtually via TEAMS and each individual conference will be 5 minutes in length for general education classes. Special Education Resource Room Caseload workers will offer 15 minute conferences. Teachers will monitor the TEAMS waiting room and will remove parents and admit parents at the scheduled time.
- Prior to conferences, parents will be provided with a master list of teachers and the teacher’s corresponding TEAMS Link.
- When scheduling consecutive conferences, you must leave one five-minute conference gap between appointments. Ensuring you have a five-minute gap will allow you time to move from one teacher’s conference to the next..
- Scheduling a conference with your counselor is not required, however, if there is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed at conferences you may schedule a conference with your child’s counselor. Due to the number of students they serve, if you do not have a pressing issue then you do not need to schedule a conference.
- If you feel you need a longer conference with any teacher, we are happy to schedule a separate conference. All staff contact information can be found at our school website.
Tutorials: Conference Scheduling on Skyward
- A video tutorial showing the process for scheduling conferences can be found at this How To Schedule Conferences Online link.
- Written directions can be found at the Secondary Parents Conference Sign Up link.
Tutorials: Attending Conferences via TEAMS on November 14th, 2024
- Video directions for how to attend your conferences on November 1 can be found at this Video Directions Link
- Written directions can be found at this Written Directions Link