This article describes the collaborative journey of two elementary education instructors at a large metropolitan university in the Southeast Region of the United States as they transformed and developed an innovative, engaging, and meaningful assignment utilizing adult avatars in TeachLivE™ to simulate parent-teacher reading conferences. The process used and tools created are shared to allow for replication. Results and outcomes are provided using concrete examples to demonstrate how this experience improved their teaching and their pre-service teachers' parent conferencing skills.