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Beatrice Public Schools seeks higher secondary conference attendance with ‘office hours’ blocks
Summary
School leaders proposed shifting middle- and high-school parent-teacher conferences to include two hours of dedicated "office hours" so teachers can proactively contact families who did not attend, citing low spring secondary turnout compared with near-universal elementary attendance.
Board members and district administrators discussed modest schedule changes for middle- and high-school parent-teacher conferences aimed at increasing family contact during spring conferences.
Administrators said the district will keep elementary and preschool conferences as scheduled because those levels see roughly 95% attendance. The proposed change for secondary schools reserves the first portion of two scheduled conference nights for traditional conferences (4:30–8:30 on night one; 4:30–6:30 on night two) and converts the last two hours of the second night to "office hours," during which teachers will prioritize outreach to families they did not reach during the main conference period.
District staff presented attendance data to justify the change: middle…
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