Parent Teacher Conference Prep Skill

"How's she doing?" earns the answer it deserves: "She's doing fine." Fifteen minutes with the person who watches your child think for a thousand hours a year is an interview worth preparing — specific questions that force specific answers, home observations the teacher can't see, and concerns raised as shared problems rather than filed complaints. This skill preps that quarter hour like the high-density meeting it is, and builds the follow-up that separates a conversation from a formality.

What This Skill Produces

• The ranked question list — top 3 first, each engineered to be unanswerable with "fine"
• The home brief — the 60-second version of what you see that the teacher can't
• The concern scripts — raising academic, social, or classroom-fit worries in ally frame
• The follow-up plan — what was agreed, who owns what, and the check-in date that makes it real

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• The child's situation — age/grade, how school seems to be going from home (homework mood, what they say at dinner, what changed this year)
• The parent's real questions and worries — including the awkward ones (the friend situation, the teacher-fit doubt, the is-this-normal question); the prep exists to make those sayable
• What's known from school so far — grades, prior teacher comments, any tests or supports in place
• The logistics — how long the slot is, both parents or one, any language/interpreter needs