Make Up Days

Well, well, well! We've got to figure out how to make up 14 school days! Yowser!

Two of our days are easy. We have planned make up days on Monday, February 17th and Friday, April 18th. The state has waived two more days based on the crazy cold temps in the original polar vortex. That gets us down to ten more to figure out.

The Indiana Department of Education has announced that they will allow schools to make up snow days in one of three ways.

1) Schools can add days to the end of the calendar year.
2) Schools can make up time by adding one hour to normal school days. Six additional hours are required to make up one secondary day. Five additional hours are required to make up one elementary day.
3) Schools can make up time by providing online instruction (such as on a Saturday). This option requires that all students in the district have access to the internet, rigorous activities, and 'reachable' teachers.

If we choose to use method number one only, we'll be going to school until June 13th. Ugh. The district will be talking about what our capabilities might be for option three.

Right now, let's get outside the box and have some conversation about option 2. Talk about the questions below in Connect. Your Connect teacher can then share them with your team leader… and team leaders will talk about this later this week.

Q1. If we have extended days, what do learners need?
Q2. If we have extended days, what kind of schedule would be best for learners?  Would we extend all normal periods or would we have a 'period 7' at the end of each day to alternate between core activities?
Q3. If we have extended days, how will that impact our lives outside of the normal school day? What things will we need to adjust/consider.

Thanks for getting the discussion started on this very interesting topic! Once decisions are made, all make-up time will be announced so that everyone can begin planning.