Student-led Conferences spark excitement in students

Lewis County Middle School students eagerly lead their families through the halls of their school to show them where they sit, what goals they have, and what grades they had made Thursday, March 12.

Student-led conferences are a new take on the age old parent-teacher conference. However, there is one major difference: students are actually excited.

About a year ago, Brandi Feichtinger, principal of Lewis County Middle School, and her staff confronted the fact that kids dread school and they wanted to make a change.

"We wanted to be a school where kids were knocking down the doors to get in, no...