 Come on down here. Your mom's coming to school today. Looking forward to it. Yeah, excellent me too. We're gonna have a meeting It's gonna be a good one And I want you to spell cop Coop We need to trade one letter calm buff. Nope. Coop Buffy one away. No, that's cool three sounds good chocolate see Oh, excellent everyone else get that Hi Julian, hi mommy. Hi, Sandra. Yeah, how are you? Good? Good? I enjoyed watching you play on the playground I know she's your good friend, isn't she? Yeah. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. Thanks, son Okay, the bell rang you two need to go in. Sandra, can you take Julian to the classroom? Good. Thanks. Bye, Julian. Bye, Sandra. Thanks for coming today, Luda. Yeah, I just thought I'd come I'm in for the meeting, but I thought I'd just come and hang out before I go help in the classroom later That'd be great. Yeah, let's head in. Okay. Thanks So Mrs. Pigford we're doing agendas and using this time to practice handwriting Would you modify it for Julian, please? Sure? I'll print the words for our Manhattan copy of mine Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Mrs. Herms. Yes. Would you be willing to check the agendas and make sure they let the message down? I sure will. Thank you Hi Kurt and Lundell. Nice of you to come in. Hi Matthew, good to see you. It's nice to see you today, Kurt. We had a Loudel volunteer in our class. It was great I always enjoy helping in the class as much as I can Well, thank you so much for meeting with us today. No problem Unfortunately, Julian's teacher went home sick this afternoon so she won't be joining us But when she comes back to school, I'll talk to her and I'm sure she has any other questions. She'll give you a call Now I understand that you have some concerns regarding Julian in the classroom. Yeah, we just wanted to discuss Julian's future and Maybe strategize ways that we can continue to build his independence and and responsibility in his activities But you mind if I take notes? Not at all One of the things that we've noticed is that Julian gets a lot of one-on-one time And we think that's great for his development. We would maybe like to see how we could incorporate a little more freedom in certain activities In certain applications. Okay. All right. Is there a specific area that you were thinking of? Well, we were just thinking maybe in math perhaps To be able to use a calculator and maybe that will allow him Just that opportunity to check his own work on his own and not always to have those Those extra eyes on him for every little problem. Sure. We'll give that a try and you're right It'll hopefully keep him on track with the other kids. It's a good idea It sounds like that there might be some other opportunities as well in other core subjects as well as math Why don't we come back together next week and talk about those things as well? Sure, that'd be terrific Yeah, yeah, and another thing that we've noticed and and he gets a lot of supervision at Playground and recess time and we're thinking maybe we can scale back that supervision to help him again build that independence Work out some solutions on his own. Yes, he really likes physical activity, but I've also noticed it myself So maybe next week I'll try to Step back a bit. It's kind of hard for me. I know exactly how you feel to and I it's hard to To kind of learn when to when and how to let go and to give him that freedom All right, so is there anything other than those that you can think of? Well, we just wanted to really thank you guys we've done a tremendous job with Julian and Over the we've seen so much growth in him over the last few years and we really have loved every teacher and So thank you very much. No, that's okay. We love Julian's as well And we're here for to make sure he gets the best education that he can to recap Just our meeting here is you're we're concerned with his independence as we're moving forward We're about to switch grades and specifically we're talking about the use of a calculator in math to help him in problem-solving I think it's a great idea And we can certainly do that and we're also going to come back next week and talk about other core subjects as we're planning for next year and Also what the supervision and I'm getting into his own little troubles and sort them out himself But we'll still have somebody else out there, but maybe not as close Sure, that sounds great Active listening is rooted in attitudes build positive working relationships Support strong collaboration between the school and home Create mutual respect and trust Listen for feelings Listen for meaning ask open-ended questions Focus on the issues Active listening to me is an important part of the programming for a child There are a number of people who hold different understandings about the child and through active listening I get to hear about those understandings and some of those might hold information that I'm not aware of Which could be important when we're programming for the child in the school And it's through this process that I am able to bring this together so that the child benefits from everybody's combined knowledge