As announced, requests for Parent Teacher Conference phone calls open on your Talos account today, March 20, 2024 at noon, 12:00 pm EDT. Requests may be made through Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 5:00 pm, EDT. There is no other way to make requests except through your Talos account.
Please read this email thoroughly.
Confirmed appointments will be emailed on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Not all requests will be filled. It’s important to put your requests in priority order and remember this is not your only opportunity to discuss or request information from teachers on your child’s progress. Parent engagement is ongoing throughout the year.
The Parent Teacher Conferences (PTC) will take place via phone calls on: Thursday, April 4, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm and/or Friday, April 5, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
Parents/Guardians with Talos accounts will receive report cards via email today, March 21. We encourage you to use your JupiterEd account to view your child’s progress. If you need assistance with JupiterEd, please reach out to Eric Lin at elin41@schools.nyc.gov. You also have access to report cards on your NYC Schools Account or on Talos by clicking ‘grades’ then ‘MP1’ on March 12. Note that all grades are numerical.
Timeframe to request appointments:
BEGIN: Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 12:00 pm EDT
CONCLUDE: Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 5:00 pm, EDT
- Requests are not first come/first serve.
- Fill out the form anytime between 12:00 pm Thursday, March 21 and Thursday, March 28 at 5:00 pm.
- No appointments will be assigned until after the request period ends.
Important Details – READ THOROUGHLY
- There is one form for each student.
- The last data set entered on the Talos PTC form is remembered by the system no matter which parent/guardian fills it out.
- If there are special circumstances in split households which require individual conferences, please reach out to Ms. Ingram or Ms. Tang to discuss.
- Be sure to indicate if you need interpretation services on the form.
- Conferences with teachers are 5 minutes each or 8 minutes if interpretation is needed.
- Conferences with counselors are 10 minutes each or 12 minutes if interpretation is needed.
- Please be sure to carefully review the phone number you enter on the form as we cannot change it for you. If you make a mistake, correct it before March 28, and save the form again or you will have to contact teachers when you receive appointments to update them.
- Be available on your appointment date to answer calls that say “unknown”, “private” or “unlisted” on April 4 and/or April 5 as teachers may call from private phone numbers.
- Remember: you are making requests, not appointments. The copy of your requests is NOT a confirmation of appointments or a schedule. You will be programmed for as many appointments as possible in the allotted time by an algorithm. You will receive confirmed appointments via email on Tuesday, April 2.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Go to your parent account at talos.stuy.edu (this form is not available on student accounts)
- If you encounter difficulty accessing your parent account, or you do not have one, please contact Ms. Ingram at ringram3@schools.nyc.gov
- If you have more than one child at Stuyvesant, you MUST FIRST choose the student from your Home Page.
- Click the “PTC” button beside your student’s photo. (it is GREEN and says PTC) Note: some students do not have photos on Talos - the green PTC button is beside the student's name. Also note: you will NOT see this button until 12:00 pm on your Talos account. Do not email us indicating the button is not there. It will be there at 12:00 pm on March 21, 2024.
- Fill out your form ranking the teachers in priority order. (i.e. Choice 1 is the teacher you most wish to speak with)
- Click the “SAVE” button. A Green box will appear in the upper right corner of the screen with a checkmark and the word “saved”.
- You will always see what you entered on that page once it’s saved. If your form is blank the next time you log in to Talos and click PTC, then you didn’t click the “save” button, and no requests were made.
- You will receive an email with a copy of your requests to the email address logged in on Talos at the time the requests were made. This is also not a confirmation of appointments. It is a copy of your requests.
- You may edit your choices until 5:00 pm on March 28.
- REMEMBER: If a second parent/guardian makes changes, the form will update. For this reason, only ONE parent should fill out the form on Talos.
Receiving appointments & Tips
You will be notified on Tuesday, April 2 via email with a schedule of which teachers will call you, along with the date and time (this information is not displayed in your Talos account).
- IMPORTANT: You may not be scheduled for ALL your requests – this is NOT an error. The number of teachers that parents will speak to is dependent upon the number of parents that sign up; how many teachers they are interested in speaking to; and the number of appointments that can be scheduled in the allotted time frame including translation time and counselor assignment, which extends conferences.
- Indicating availability on either date increases probability of programming options within the slots available in the algorithm.
- Please do not contact teachers outside of Talos asking them to “add” you to their schedule. Teachers will have calls scheduled during their allotted time frame on April 4 and 5. You may contact teachers at any time during the year to speak about your concerns. Parent engagement is ongoing throughout the year.
- Parents/Guardians of students in grade 11 & 12 will be prioritized to see College Counselors if chosen.
- Parents/Guardians in all grades 9-12 may opt to see a School Counselor. Priority will be given to grades 9 and 10 if chosen.
- Changes cannot be made once appointments are distributed.
- Parents of students with IEPs may select to see a special education teacher.
- Requests to speak to the Assistant Principal to discuss special education should be made directly to Ms. Paulson; not on Talos.
- If you are not scheduled to receive a phone call from a teacher you need to speak with, please wait until after April 3 to request information from them.
- If a teacher is absent on PTC, they will contact you to arrange a mutually agreeable alternate time to have the phone call; we cannot 'fill in' your schedule with more calls due to absences.
