Partnering for Success: Strategies for Effective Parent-Teacher Conferences - 平裝

The chapter on handling defensive parents completely changed how I prep for conferences—I went from dreading them to actually looking forward to the conversation. It's a slim paperback, easy to flip through the night before, and the strategies are concrete instead of vague theory.

I used the sample conference scripts in chapter four for last week's meetings and they completely changed the tone of the conversation with a defensive parent. The paperback is thin enough to keep on my desk and flip through before each round of conferences.

The conference prep checklist in the back is what sold me—I copied it straight into my planner and used it before every meeting this fall. The section on handling defensive parents gave me actual phrases to fall back on instead of freezing up. My conferences ran smoother than they have in years.