Recently, 525 parents attended parent-teacher-student conferences, Ms．Smiley said, compared with 75 parents in 2003．No appointments were needed, and everyone was welcome at the conferences this year, spread over two days that school officials called a Celebration of Learning．

　　“I think we’re learning that every school has its own DNA, and there is not a prescription for conferences that works for every school,” Ms．Kinney said．“There is such an increasingly diverse population at our nation’s schools, the one-size-fits-all model conference just doesn’t work anymore．”

　　At some schools, not only are students on hand for conferences, but their siblings are also welcome, as are grandparents, aunts and uncles, even family friends．

　　When Mark Heller accepted a job as an assistant principal at the middle school in his hometown of Plano, Ill．, he discovered that the community had changed a lot in the eight years he had been a teacher in Iowa．The population had nearly doubled to 10,000 residents, and 37 percent of the students at Plano Middle School were now from low-income families．

　　The traditional parent-teacher conferences without a student present are always available by appointment, and sometimes necessary, for example, to discuss a private matter concerning a non-custodial （无监护权的） parent, a family crisis the child is unaware of or a special education diagnosis．

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