Maria Ricchio Noticing Blog

This week we had report card pick up. The process went a lot better than I imagined. Out of 24 students in our class, we had all but 6 parents come in to conferences. I thought that was an excellent turn out. Also, I was really impressed by how my teacher conducted these conversations as well. She does 3 positives and a wish for each student and they went pretty quickly.  However, I never realized how much paper work was involved. We even gave parents a "parent report card" for their involvement at Shoesmith this year (Attendance to PTO meetings, volunteer hours, literacy night, open house, etc.). The other thing I noticed was how smoothly the conversations went with our parents. No parent was surprised or upset over their student's grades and I know this is because we have daily conversations with most of our parents after school about student's behavior, homework, etc. I think sending home a progress report is also helpful because those grades were very similar to the ones they received on their Quarter 1 report card. This was a really cool experience in general since I have always been on the student end and this was the first time being on the other end.