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For Biyonca Jennings, who has accouchement at T.J. Harris Upper and Lower elementary schools in Meridian, apprenticeship is not article that stops in classrooms and corridors.

“You accept to do it at home, as well,” Jennings said.
Jennings is amid parents anticipating this academy year's aboriginal annular of parent-teacher conferences in breadth academy districts, slated to booty abode in the advancing weeks. She’s acquisitive to allocution with agents to acquisition out how her accouchement are accomplishing with reading, autograph and the blow of their subjects.
For educators, the accomplished abstraction of affectionate captivation is article they analyze throughout their training, explained Kimberly Hall, acting analysis arch of apprenticeship for Mississippi State University-Meridian. Apprenticeship students, she said, accede affectionate captivation in wide-sweeping ways.
"It's not alone about allowance kids with homework," she said. "It's about allowance kids with amusing issues, affecting issues and basically that big awning of affectionate captivation in a child's life."
Hall acclaimed the accent of affectionate captivation — and additionally the accent of compassionate how it can be difficult in some ways.
“Sometimes our parents did not accept a acceptable acquaintance in academy themselves, so the educational ambiance is intimidating,” Hall said. “We allege a lot about that in the counseling affairs ... about how you change the ability or the altitude of the academy to appearance them this is an agreeable abode to come.”
Homework help, Hall said, can additionally be arduous to parents.
“Math is apparently the archetypal one that parents attempt with,” she said. “The way (students learn) algebraic is altered than the blueprint anamnesis area you aloof acquire all of your multiplication facts. Now, acceptance will breach a multiplication botheration in altered ways, and parents may not accept how the adolescent is learning.”
But there are approaches, Hall said, that can advice parents to appoint added auspiciously with their children's academy work. Simply allurement accouchement how they're accomplished to admission problems, she suggested, can accessible up acceptable discussions.
“A lot of times you can aces up, by alert to your child, the accomplish they charge to follow,” she said. “Typically as a parent, you apperceive how to breach the botheration — the action is aloof different.”
Those are amid the capacity parents may be discussing with agents in the advancing weeks.
At the Meridian Public Academy District, parent-teacher conferences are slated at all commune schools from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

“Teachers acquaintance parents to set up times,” said LaVonda Germany, arch of Poplar Springs Elementary School.
Germany said she wants parents to feel chargeless to ask questions — and those questions ability blow aloft capacity such as apprentice performance, things a ancestor can do to advice accouchement at home and means a ancestor ability abutment a abecedary in the classroom.
“It’s a absolute affiliation amid the schools and parents,” Germany said. “Parents can’t do it all on their own, and the schools can’t do it all on their own, either.”
That’s a point additionally bidding by Cheryl Thomas, Lauderdale County Academy District’s class administrator for grades 5 through 12 and the district's administrator of able development.
“Parents’ accord is acutely important to us,” Thomas said. “It’s two-way. We charge advice from the parent, questions from them that can advice us apperceive how we can advice with their child.”
Lauderdale County Academy District’s parent-teacher conferences are appointed for Oct. 19, with times capricious according to school. Thomas said best conferences are appointed for after in the year, in March, and both admiral fatigued that parents can agenda affairs at any time during the year — decidedly if they’re not able to accomplish the appointed conferences.
The conferences additionally accommodate forums for agents to explain abstracts aggregate from apprentice assessments, forth with means parents can accretion admission to apprentice grades.
Depending on the children's needs, parents and agents ability additionally altercate means parents can sit bottomward and advice acceptance with their appointment — article that, as Hall noted, can be arduous back new analytic methods are involved.
For Biyonca Jennings, the ancestor with accouchement at T.J. Harris Upper and Lower elementary schools, a little time on YouTube was bare to advice her apprentice new math-teaching methods. She said the methods agents use to advise algebraic today absorb affective through added accomplish than back she was in school.
“They breach it bottomward in so abounding altered accomplish — and back we abstruse how to do it, it was quick and simple,” said Jennings, who additionally serves as the adolescent developed and developed affairs coordinator for the Meridian-Lauderdale County Public Library.
The aberration amid old and new means of analytic algebraic problems sparked a chat amid Jennings and her 11-year-old son. Her son explained the way he's been accomplished to breach a accurate algebraic problem, and they concluded up alive on the aforementioned botheration calm — but application altered methods.
“We both got the aforementioned answer,” she said.

Resources on the Net
• Ancestor assets are accessible on academy districts’ websites, and ancestor Biyonca Jennings offered one of her own, as well: www.starfall.com/
• Additionally on the Net:
www.mpsd.k12.ms.us/
www.lauderdale.k12.ms.us/
Parent-Teacher Conference Schedules:
• Meridian Public Academy District:
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 for all schools
• Lauderdale County Academy District:
Thursday, Oct. 19:
Clarkdale Elementary: 3:30 to 6 p.m.
Clarkdale Middle: 3:30 to 6 p.m.

Clarkdale High: 3:30 to 6 p.m.
Northeast Elementary: 3 to 6 p.m.
Northeast Middle: 3 to 5:30 p.m.
Northeast High: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Southeast Elementary: 3:30 to 6 p.m.
Southeast Middle: 3 to 6 p.m.
Southeast High: 3:30 to 6 p.m.
West Lauderdale Elementary: Kindergarten and Grade 4: 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.; Grades 1, 2, 3: 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
West Lauderdale Middle: 3:30 to 6 p.m.
West Lauderdale High: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
LCSD Educational Skills Center: 2 to 4 p.m.


