Late Arrival Day and Time Change
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Beginning the week of February 6, 2012, the school is planning to implement a weekly late arrival each Monday for the remainder of the school year replacing the monthly late days held on Tuesdays. The late arrival time would change from 9:45 am to 9:00 am. This would mean that students would be allowed to enter the building at 8:45 am.
As you know we have implemented a number of programming and scheduling changes this year to address new state requirements. First, we added an additional period to our schedule and lengthened the school day that has allowed us to provide additional remedial and intervention work in core academic areas. Second, we implemented monthly late arrival days to allow for more frequent professional development among the faculty and staff. And third, we are monitoring student progress through a variety of data gathering processes to help us target our intervention work with students. The additional contact time with students has been very successful as has been the professional development time with the staff; however, while we have gotten better at identifying needs and developing strategies to help students, the time the teachers have to plan for and implement these has become a challenge. Therefore, the weekly late arrival times are needed to allow for team planning meetings each Monday morning at which time teachers can meet and develop lessons for the remainder of the week so that we are more efficient in our efforts to support student learning.
We would also welcome your input and feedback on the proposal. Please click on the "Take Survey" heading above. With our present late arrivals, which have pushed the start time of the school day to 9:30 am, a few parents have indicated that childcare has been a problem particularly since Lisa’s Day Care has been unable to provide support. With the new plan of starting the school day on Mondays at 9:00 am, Lisa’s Day Care has indicated to us that it will be able to provide care for the late arrival time; please contact Lisa’s for more information (295-7000).
As aways, we would like to thank the community for its continued support of the school and our efforts to help all students maximize their learning!
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