I’ve been a teacher for 17 years, and I’ve never enjoyed parent-teacher conferences this much. It was so fun to talk about the growth kids are making and celebrate successes with parents. They’re saying things like, ‘whatever you are doing this year, it's great,’ or ‘she is a completely different kid from kindergarten,’ or ‘that thing you are doing with the sounds is really working,’ or ‘before 1st grade, reading caused tears. Now he wants to pick up a book on his own.’ My hope was that EBLI would work by the end of the year, never did I think I would have this much progress in just 9 weeks.