Hillview devotes four days to parent-teacher conferences in the fall each year, just after the mid-point of the first trimester. This year, those days are October 12 - 15. They are minimum days, which means students are released at 11:45 a.m. (Please make a note: There is no SamTrans bus service after school on minimum days, so plan accordingly for student transportation home from school on those days). At the middle school level, it is impossible for us to conference with every family. Our practice, therefore, is to set up conferences first with those students who are most in need of them. After we have scheduled these conferences, we open up our online conference scheduler to the remaining families, and you may at that time take the remaining slots. If you do not receive an invitation from your child's teachers to conference, it doesn't mean they don't want to conference with you; it simply means that a conference with you is not a high need. Stay tuned for more information. Our online scheduler will open on Wednesday, October 7. And please be aware that at the middle school level, students attend conferences! They need to be involved in these conversations.