The meeting is one hour; the year is the other eight hundred. Send a two-line note within a week: thank you, plus one human detail ("we told him what you said about his storytelling; he stood a little taller"). Try the one thing you agreed to, run it for three weeks, and report back in three sentences. Keep the thread with small early contacts, the way a fire is kept: small sticks, regularly, thirty seconds at a time. Between now and spring, keep an informal what-worked ledger on your phone: what steadied homework, what made mornings possible. Spring meetings run on evidence, and the family who arrives saying "here's what we watched work" is the family whose suggestions get adopted. And keep one table in your week where your child is spoken of as a person becoming, so the file's language never becomes your family's language.