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One of the options for next year's school calendar in my district is a 2 week break between first and second semester. I don't know when that will be, but my guess is that school would start 2 weeks earlier, and the break would be the last 2 weeks of January. If not, it will be the first 2 weeks of February.
There will be some teacher workdays in there, so teachers wouldn't get the entire 2 weeks off.
I voted FOR it. Man I miss working in year round schools where I could take a vacation when the rest of the world was not also off.
One of the options for next year's school calendar in my district is a 2 week break between first and second semester. I don't know when that will be, but my guess is that school would start 2 weeks earlier, and the break would be the last 2 weeks of January. If not, it will be the first 2 weeks of February.
There will be some teacher workdays in there, so teachers wouldn't get the entire 2 weeks off.
I voted FOR it. Man I miss working in year round schools where I could take a vacation when the rest of the world was not also off.
Would you vote for it?
I’d have to see the rest of the calendar. How long is winter break? I’m assuming you have something around Christmas and Jan 1. When does it start?
Are those workdays comprised of teacher directed time, staff development, or school planning days?
Is there also a spring break?
Two weeks earlier at the beginning of the year would be approximately what date?
One of the options for next year's school calendar in my district is a 2 week break between first and second semester. I don't know when that will be, but my guess is that school would start 2 weeks earlier, and the break would be the last 2 weeks of January. If not, it will be the first 2 weeks of February.
There will be some teacher workdays in there, so teachers wouldn't get the entire 2 weeks off.
I voted FOR it. Man I miss working in year round schools where I could take a vacation when the rest of the world was not also off.
Would you vote for it?
I worked for a few years in a school system that went 9 weeks, 2 week Fall break, went 9 weeks, 2 week Christmas break, went 9 weeks, 2 week Spring break, went 9 weeks, then Summer break. Sweetest schedule ever, everyone loved it - kids, parents, teachers ... then came high stakes testing.
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I worked for a few years in a school system that went 9 weeks, 2 week Fall break, went 9 weeks, 2 week Christmas break, went 9 weeks, 2 week Spring break, went 9 weeks, then Summer break. Sweetest schedule ever, everyone loved it - kids, parents, teachers ... then came high stakes testing.
For 17 years I worked in year round schools! I miss it so much. We worked 4 months, off 2, worked 4, off 2.
I’d have to see the rest of the calendar. How long is winter break? I’m assuming you have something around Christmas and Jan 1. When does it start?
Are those workdays comprised of teacher directed time, staff development, or school planning days?
Is there also a spring break?
Two weeks earlier at the beginning of the year would be approximately what date?
Not sure about all of that. They did say we would still get 2 weeks at Christmas and a Spring Break. My *guess* is that it would eliminate some of the teacher workdays during the school year that seem to be random.....some are staff development, some are just teacher workdays.....that number shouldn't change as it is dictated by the state.
Actually, nothing should change in terms of number of days/hours we have to have instruction time, days we have to have staff development, and days we have to have optional teacher workdays.
However, there was mention of a longer school day to make up some of the time, which is fine with me. 15 min. more per day won't make a difference either way.
I used to work in year round schools and we had 163 school days instead of 180. In order to do that, students were there from 7:30-3:40. And we only had 3 teacher workdays per year! It was wonderful.
Now we have 175 school days, 10 optional workdays, and 10 mandatory teacher workdays. It is ridiculous.
So, I went from working 166 days per year to working 195, and my pay went WAY down.....sigh.
Not sure about all of that. They did say we would still get 2 weeks at Christmas and a Spring Break. My *guess* is that it would eliminate some of the teacher workdays during the school year that seem to be random.....some are staff development, some are just teacher workdays.....that number shouldn't change as it is dictated by the state.
Actually, nothing should change in terms of number of days/hours we have to have instruction time, days we have to have staff development, and days we have to have optional teacher workdays.
However, there was mention of a longer school day to make up some of the time, which is fine with me. 15 min. more per day won't make a difference either way.
I used to work in year round schools and we had 163 school days instead of 180. In order to do that, students were there from 7:30-3:40. And we only had 3 teacher workdays per year! It was wonderful.
Now we have 175 school days, 10 optional workdays, and 10 mandatory teacher workdays. It is ridiculous.
So, I went from working 166 days per year to working 195, and my pay went WAY down.....sigh.
We have 194, 14 of which are (for lack of a better term) teacher workdays.
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