Team Conferences - 4/10/19

Dear parents and guardians of Team Athenian students,

TPJHS will be holding parent-teacher conferences on Wednesday, April 10th from 11:50am – 2:50pm. This is a change from former years where a full day was reserved for conferences. In light of this change, this year your student’s core teachers (Math, English, History, and Science) will be holding conferences as a team. We will hold these conferences in Mrs. Mayes’s classroom at TPJHS, located in room 42. If you and your student would like to participate in this conference, we ask that you print and complete the linked form prior to November 14th to have on hand to expedite the experience and ensure that everyone’s time is used efficiently. Each conference will include all 4 core teachers, yourself, and your student. It will last no more than 10 minutes.

Sign up for your conference with the Team Athenian teachers using this link: Team Athenian Conference Sign-Up

Student-Parent worksheet to print, complete, and bring to your appointment: Worksheet

As a team, we feel blessed to have many successful and driven students this year. We appreciate the support that you’re giving these students at home to continue encouraging this behavior. The purpose of the upcoming conferences is largely to allow parents and teachers to design a plan together to support specific students who are still striving to find academic and behavioral success. As such, we ask that if you are not expressly concerned about your student’s performance in their core classes, and especially if your student is excelling in 2 or more, that you consider reaching out to individual teachers by email or phone rather than during district conferences. This will ensure the short window of time we are provided this year can be used to its maximum potential.

  

The core teachers are available for parent meetings on the second and fourth Thursday of each month from 9:00am-10am. Appointments for a 15-minute meeting can be made by contacting Mrs. Mayes directly. These parent meetings are held for students who are failing 3 or more core classes. When students are failing 2 or fewer core classes, we suggest the parents and student reach out the individual teachers via email or phone.

A great way to remain informed about your student’s progress is to check their TPJHS planner and the Illuminate online portal regularly. These resources are promoted school-wide and can keep you very updated about current assignments, behaviors, and grades. Many teachers use websites or Google Classroom in addition, which students can access around the clock.

In short, we love seeing you and praising the successes of your students, but on parent-teacher conference day when our time is especially short, we would prefer to be able to strategize on behalf of everyone’s success. Thank you for working with us to support this goal!

We appreciate you!

Respectfully,

Team Athenian Teachers

C. Woolever – Math        B. Ricards – Science        C. Harmon – English        A. Mayes – History

Other details:

• Appointments will be kept to 10 minutes to allow you, your student, and the core teachers to candidly discuss how to remain successful for the final quarter of the school year. 

• Walk-ins will be given your appointment if you are delayed 5 minutes or longer.

• Please come prepared with your student's grades and questions so that we can make the most of our time together.