Conference week numbers...

5 days, 31 unique students, 31 blue folders, 31 report cards w/ 40 things to fill out per student, 31 student/parent compacts, 31 fluency reports, 31 incomplete/missing assignment reports, 31 journals to grade, 31 sets of papers to grade/input/file, 31 student conferences, 31 parent conferences scheduled, 3 no shows, 7 parents who were late and/or caused other conferences to go overtime, 20 minutes per conference, 5 EL inserts, 4 retention contracts, 2 GATE letters, 1 parent who cried and needed two long conferences (over an hour) to grasp the fact that her daughter has room for improvement... over 15 hours of talking with students/parents/guardians this week about student progress, and 1 teacher who is recovering after a long, exhausted week.