Comments on: Morning Metro: Oakhurst Puts Students in Charge, a Six-Figure Home on Lullwater, and a Public Toilet Success Story

By: brianc

brianc — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:46:54 +0000

Note that the “most literate” ranking has nothing to do with actual literacy rates. DeKalb, for instance, has a high percentage of functionally illiterate adults.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:39:41 +0000

This does sound great. I have always been surprised that routine parent/teacher conferences for all children were not standard for all schools. Depending on the school, sometimes they only occur if requested by the parents. I hope this proactive model gets extended somehow to the middle and high school levels as well where it’s even more important for students to take a lead role in their learning. I realize that it’s a challenge there because multiple teachers are involved and it would be a tremendous burden for just 3 or 4 counselors to do all of them. But I wonder if there’s a way to divvy up the students among the entire school leadership and have a reasonable load–e.g. principal, vice-principal(s), counselors, instructional leads, IB coordinators, etc.

By: s

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:20:25 +0000

I agree. It was a wonderful experience for kids and parents!

By: TOK

TOK — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:01:55 +0000

I went to one of the student-led conferences at Oakhurst, for my son in Kindergarten. It was really nice: he showed off his reading (reading a short book and talking about his strategies for figuring out words), his math (doing a couple of addition and subtraction problems), plus telling me a few facts about the U.S. flag. He got into it and was proud of how he had done, I got a nice sense of the things he had been doing, and it took just about 10 minutes.

Go Owls!