This week at Lewis Elementary, we held our annual parent/teacher conferences. Fall conferences are an opportunity for families and teachers to come together and plan for the school year and set student goals. In preparation for his conferences, Mr. Hansen surveyed his students about school, and their personal goals for the year. He then shared these goals with his families during conferences.
To facilitate the collection of these goals Mr. Hansen used a Google Form and the Autocrat add-on for Google Sheets. The form made it easy to have each student enter their information using their Chromebook. Mr. Hansen then used the Autocrat add-on to populate a conference template document with each students responses to the survey form.
Mr. Hansen then printed and the nicely formatted documents and used the goal setting sheet as a major portion of the conference.
Autocrat is one of many fine tools developed by the The CloudLab -- a project of New Visions for Public Schools.