Parent Teacher Conference sign up begins, March 20 at 9:00 am
As announced, requests for Parent Teacher Conference phone calls open on your Talos account today, Monday, March 20 at 9am, EST. Requests may be made through Sunday, March 26 at 5pm, EST. There is no other way to make requests except through your Talos account.
Please read these instructions thoroughly.
Confirmed appointments will be emailed on March 28. Please note that not all requests can possibly be filled in the allotted time frame. 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.
The Parent Teacher Conferences (PTC) will take place via phone calls from teachers on: Thursday, March 30 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm and/or Friday, March 31 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Parents/Guardians with Talos accounts will be emailed report cards on March 23. We encourage you to use your Jupiter account to view your child’s progress. If you need assistance with Jupiter, please reach out to Eric Lin at elin41@schools.nyc.gov. You will also have access to report cards on your NYC Schools Account or on Talos by clicking ‘grades’ then ‘MP1’.
Timeframe to request appointments:
BEGIN: Monday, March 20, 2023 at 9:00 am, EST
CONCLUDE: Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm, EST
- Requests are not first come/first served.
- Fill out the form anytime between 9am today and Sunday, March 26 at 5pm.
- 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 at ringram3@schools.nyc.gov to discuss.
- Be sure to indicate if you need interpretation services.
- 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 26, and save the form again or you will have to contact teachers when you receive appointments on March 28 to update them.
- Be available on your appointment date to answer calls that say “unknown”, “private” or “unlisted” on March 30 and/or March 31 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 after all requests are processed. You will receive confirmed appointments via email on March 28.
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 name. Note: you will NOT see this button until 9:00 am on your Talos account. Do not email us indicating the button is not there. It will be there at 9:00 am on March 20, 2023.
- Fill out all fields in the form.
- 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 5pm on March 26.
- 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, March 28 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.
- Please do not contact teachers outside of Talos asking them to “add” you to their schedule. Teachers will have calls scheduled for their full time frames on March 30 and 31.
- Parents/Guardians of students in grade 11 & 12 will be prioritized to see College Counselors.
- Parents/Guardians in all grades 9-12 may opt to see a School Counselor. Priority will be given to grades 9 and 10.
- Changes cannot be made once appointments are distributed.
- Parents of students with IEPs may select to see a special education teacher.
- If you are not scheduled to receive a phone call from a teacher you need to speak with, please wait until after March 31 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.
