001and now the pressure is on we're going to talk about schedules and calendars which are um exactly important to our our district and community so uh we'll move on to to reports which is item 5.1 and um the administrative responsible Kristen Ryan and I believe uh James pul will also be joining us to provide an update and this uh is the instructional hours update yes um so we have um actually it is Kristen Ryan and Mr James pul uh but we just really like to go through uh our announcement that we've shared with parents today I have uh several shoutouts and that is that I am deeply grateful for the collaboration of a large team of people um on those uh some of those inclement weather days days we were zooming through the day uh
002with our Lea partners and with members of our team we were already working on the collaboration uh at 28 degre below windchill uh we were online starting this process so I just want to uh share with you all that this uh recommendation that we're bringing this evening is uh absolutely a result of collaboration and it is strongly supported by our teachers and our team um and it is to me just a marvelous example of folks coming together to innovate to solve a problem uh that we didn't have any control over the universe gave us an historic winter but we use that as an opportunity to collaborate and uh just an AS an example of our teacher voice 800 of our 870 teachers 65% voted between Friday afternoon and Monday at noon so it ran over
003the weekend 65% voted and of those who voted 90% voted yes to this proposal so I am proud to bring you a calendar for makeup time that is supported by the folks in the trenches who are doing this work and I also want to share that throughout this time we were thinking about how to frame this so that students and parents and families wouldn't find it to be more of a disruption than it necessarily will have to be so I feel like and one of those was by moving the afternoon time and not the Morning Report time because we know what a delicate balance parents uh with their workplace and with the car pools it's just a lot so and the other piece is that all schools are moving together so we wanted to make
004sure that the if the high school child is responsible for helping with the elementary or the middle or vice versa that we were moving the whole system so um it would I'm sorry to keep throwing you curve balls but it would be great to have this up it is attached the members have it but for those in the audience um so following spring break uh we are proud to prioritize our instructional time uh that we lost during the storms and we uh are recommending these following steps they will begin on the Monday following spring break so we had promised to deliver this word by Friday the 14th but we really pressed to get it out today because we know that it involves parents and grandparents and child care for our staff and for our parents
005it involves all the things so we wanted to get it out as quickly as possible so here's how it goes beginning Monday March 24th after our spring break uh we will be adding 15 minutes if you'll scroll up up guys a bit to the end of I I mean down forgive me Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday is a plus 15 minutes that will be March 24th through the end of the school year I do want to share some students have reached out to us they're worried that the 15 minutes goes all in seventh period I just want to let folks know that principles have been collaborative and those minutes are being added through the day instructionally and pretty much mirror across high school middle and elementary how the minutes are added and just for our
006students and those who ask these questions the minutes are not at lunch we're not allowed to do that for instructional time but they are added into classroom time the addition um also includes 25 5 minutes at the end of Wednesdays so starting the Wednesday after spring break a plus 25 minutes on Wednesdays um the designated inclement weather makeup day Monday April 21st will be a full day of school and we've been saying that and counting on it uh for many weeks but just uh confirming then at the end of the year and I misstated this earlier um it really is the equivalent of one day added but it's the parts of two days for kids so we will have the half day for Thursday May 22nd will become a full day and then Friday May
00723rd all students will wrap up at early dismissal time and then teacher will have the afternoon uh to do their checkout uh it always took me longer than that but I was methodical uh but that half day before Memorial Day in the afternoon is for our teacher time uh of note inquiring minds want to know scroll down a little bit more this is kind of important uh for the class of 2025 seniors they will be expected to make the adjustments on the school days between now and the end of the year but and there will be a slight modification on final exam day and they'll get that information directly from their principle and in doing those two things I'm able to announce that there will be no end of year adjustments required for our seniors
008the class of 2025 they've been counting the days for a while so I appreciate the team working hard to make sure we had it built in for seniors now parents should expect to hear from their building principle uh by the end of this week uh exact dismissal times because those vary across schools we want you to receive that detailed information directly from your principal bus routes all all of those details so this is our recommendation I know Mr poke and Miss Ryan will join us if you have questions um again uh Mr Spradlin and team and uh Emerson and team and Mr pulk and Miss Ryan and all of our calendar committee um you're going to hear from Mr pul about that in a few minutes but we just appreciate everybody that pitched in to
009bring us uh from on the ground the best way to achieve our goal thank you I know folks were hoping that that we would just get forgiveness uh but this is a time where we just have to step up and do it so yeah and no more snow hopefully