Letter from Dani Steiner Regarding Upcoming
Parent-Teacher Conferences

October 26, 2007
14 Heshvan 5768

Dear Parents:

Our Parent-Teacher conferences for Grades PreKindergarten and Grades 1-8 will be held on Tuesday, November 13 and Wednesday, November 14, 2007, from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Kindergarten conferences will be held on Wednesday, November 14th from 1:30-8:00 p.m. and Thursday, November 15th from 3:30-6:00 p.m. All students will have a full day of school on both days.

Teachers will be conferencing both evenings, so you may choose which evening you would like to meet with your child(ren)’s homeroom teacher. Please call Eileen Ellis at
751-2470 x22 to schedule an appointment. She will make every effort to coordinate your conference time(s) to accommodate any multiple conferences you may have.

Conferences will be scheduled every 25 minutes on both evenings for Lower School homeroom teachers. The Lower School conferences will be with your child’s homeroom teacher and the co-teacher of that grade when possible (some subject teachers are responsible for multiple grades).

The Middle School conferences will also be with the homeroom teachers on both evenings. These Middle School Homeroom teacher meetings will take place every 20 minutes. The subject teachers in Middle School will also be available for conferencing after you meet with your child’s homeroom teacher. You may schedule a 10 minute conference with a Middle School subject teacher when you phone in advance for a conference time with your homeroom teacher or you may sign up the evening of the conference to meet with a subject teacher, mindful of the fact that your desired time may have already been assigned.

Child care will be available for children over the age of 3 years. Middle School students will provide services with Betsy Cable and Naomi Stein supervising. The child care room will be the Kindergarten classroom on the first floor. Donations for the services will be used for Middle School activities.

We hope this conference schedule proves to be the most convenient and comprehensive conference for you as well as the most educationally sound for your children. Please contact Eileen Ellis as soon as possible to schedule your appointments.

Sincerely,

Dani Steiner
Head of School

P.S. Please help support our annual Food Drive. During Parent Teacher conferences, food contribution boxes will be located in each homeroom and also in the school lobby. We appreciate your donation of non-perishable foods in non-glass containers. If you would like to make a monetary donation to the Food Drive, please make checks payable to JCDSRI and enclose in an envelope marked TURKEY. Thank you for your continued generosity.

Parent-Teacher Conference Announcement