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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Logistically, its not possible in a departmentalized situation to have a conference with both teachers. I do think its a fair expectation that the teacher shares more data points than a MAP score, but a separate conference can be a lot, especially when schools don't allocate the time for it..[/quote]

How is it logistically impossible? Run the conference with both teachers present. Presumably there are multiple children with the same pair of teachers.

It's not logistically impossible -- it's just not sufficiently resourced. [/quote]

Let's say that me and my departmentalized party each have 25 kids:
50 students at 15 mins per student is 750 minutes is 12.5 hours without any breaks between conferences. With 5 min breaks in between that's over 16.5 hours, or 2+ teacher work days.

Do you want your kids at home an extra day, day and a half for each student to have time for conferences? Asking sincerely bc that would be how it could be possible logistically.[/quote]

Our school does combined conferences (3 departmentalized teachers) in one day back-to-back-to-back for 10 minutes each, so it takes them nearly 11 hours to get through everyone. They did it, gave me solid (if quick) insight & generally seemed to be rockstars. In any case, it can be done in one day; just not in 8 hours.[/quote]

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