Dear MACC-sters, young and old(er),

Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy schedules to come to the student-led conferences.  And thank you for humoring my vision of these conferences as a chance for the older folk to get a sense of some of the things that the younger folk get up to every day.

Here are some of your timed, drawn index card responses to the quote by Maya Angelou:

 

And here’s some photos of y’all practicing group work with the Paper Tower Challenge:

 

And here’s a photo of the Connection board before we started making connections (students had 20 minutes in their university teams to write down everything they remembered from Term One, and got one point for each idea/concept they had that no other team had – as a way of building the board but also to help cement some of Term One’s learning and not have it just drift away in the ether of “done-ness”…):

And here’s a photo of the Connection board after the conferences:

And here’s some photos of students showing some of you things in the room (before my old nemesis, the full phone, reared its ugly head…):

 

 

And here are the students’ timed, drawn index card responses to the prompt, the next day, “Draw an image of a moment you felt good about yourself during your student-led conference” (including some fantasy moments from those who were unable to attend):

Again, thank you all, students and parents.  There were a lot of very tender moments that I felt privileged to witness.  Thank you, as always, for having such wonderfully curious children; and thank you, kids, for having such caring, game parents!