It's Conference Time!

**Paper copies of this form will be sent home on Wednesday**

Dear Families of Team Falcon,

How time flies! We're well into autumn, and it’s already time for our first round of Student Portfolio Conferences. Children benefit greatly from having meaningful conversations about their learning with important adults in their lives. To that end, we invite you to a Portfolio Conference where your child will present to you artifacts of his or her learning - work from each class that he or she has thoughtfully selected to demonstrate learning and growth. Any caring adult is welcome - parents, adult siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors. Conferences will take place in the Middle/Elementary School Library.

These conferences are important to your child, and represent many hours of hard work. The portfolio process helps students build life-long skills including: organization skills, self-evaluative skills, and communication skills. Most importantly, the portfolio process helps your child take more ownership of his or her learning and be more accountable for his or her academic progress. Thank you for the important role you play in this process!

Please visit http://bit.ly/teamfalconconferencesfall16 to indicate your preferred conference time, or return the form attached to this letter. Any caring adult is welcome - parents, adults siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors. If no adult is able to attend at one of the times offered, we will gladly make arrangements for you to conference with your child at another time. Conferences will take place in the Middle/Elementary School Library.

We look forward to seeing you!

The Teachers of Team Falcon: Jana Fabri-Sbardellati Megan Smith

Greer Krembs Gloria Crowe

James Moore Tami Koester

Catherine Thibault-Cote