Last
year we used a rotating building schedule (A, B, C, D, E) to address the
inequity of instructional time that Holiday’s, Early Release Days, Professional
Development Days create. Although
successful in many ways, the schedule created other scheduling conflicts and
caused some confusion.
Even
though we are abandoning the rotating schedule, we feel strongly that we still
need to address the inequity of instructional time. For instance, if we continued to use a
traditional Monday–Friday schedule, any class that has Art scheduled on Friday
afternoons would miss twelve Art classes.
This
year we will follow a traditional M–F building schedule, however, we will
address the inequities by using “Switch Days.”
Basically we will switch Friday’s schedule with another day’s schedule
eight times during the year. Switch Days
will more effectively equalize instructional time across all classes and cause
less disruptions.
Switch
Days should not impact families, except for maybe when to send back library
books. All “Switch Days” are noted on
the online calendar. You can access the
Reed Online Calendar by clicking on http://www.ladueschools.net/elementary/index.php/2012-09-17-23-32-34/calendar#year=2013&month=7&day=26&view=month. Your
child’s teacher will also notify you of any library scheduling changes.
