Free printable · Template 13
Two conference records to a page, cut apart for the file. The good column sits on the left, because the order you write in is the order you end up saying it.
Two per page · cut apart for the student file
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Conference week is never one form. Pick the next one and it comes out matching this one.
Print as many of these as you like, and the next one will match this one. What the free page will not do is take the student names, so twenty-four conferences means writing twenty-four names in by hand the night before. Those headings are my words too, and some schools have their own for exactly this form.
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Most conference forms lead with concerns, or with a grid of scores. Whatever is at the top of the page is what you talk about first, because you fill it in as you go.
Here, Going well is the left column and Next steps is the right. Not because problems do not matter, but because a parent who hears something true and specific about their child in the first minute listens differently for the next ten.
It also makes you find something. A form with no space for it lets a hard conference become entirely hard, and there is always something.
A parent who hears one true good thing first will hear the rest of it.
Fifteen minutes of conversation produces about five lines of usable notes. A full page invites you to fill it, and filling it means writing during the conference instead of listening.
Two to a page also means a class of twenty-four is twelve sheets rather than twenty-four, and they go straight into the file cut apart.
Write the good thing in advance, while you have the child's work in front of you and nobody is waiting. Thirty seconds each, done the night before.
Then the conference starts with something specific rather than something you reached for, and a parent can tell the difference immediately.