Student-led conferences in which students present their cumulative work, reflect, and set goals with families and advisors¶

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Description¶

Gateway holds student-led conferences midway through the school year. The report states these conferences "allow students to formally share their cumulative work across the semester with their parents or guardians and teachers" and that they "help students build agency and self-advocacy while also encouraging self-reflection and metacognition." Advisors scaffold the presentations with sentence stems, and students highlight what they are proud of, what they found challenging, and how they have grown.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Advisors prepare students with scaffolds such as sentence stems and structured reflection on work samples

Constraints¶

• Held midway through the school year as a formal structure, supported by the advisory system

Target Learners¶

• middle school students
• families as partners in learning

Target Learning Goals¶

• self-reflection and metacognition
• agency and self-advocacy
• goal setting

Related Strategies¶

• Student Led Conferences
• Build student ownership through student-led conferences, town halls, and college and career readiness activities
• Student Led Math Conferences
• Portfolio Development
• Student Portfolio Creation

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Cook-Harvey, C. M., Flook, L., Efland, E., & Darling-Hammond, L. (2020). Teaching for powerful learning: Lessons from Gateway Public Schools. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. http://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/social-and-emotional-learning-case-study-gateway