Which Schools will have extended school year in 2016-2017?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know which schools DCPS is adding to the extended school year list for next year?

[Anonymous]

What is extended school year? Summer school?

[Anonymous]

DCPS is trying out a longer school year. Raymond EC has an extended school year this year. Next year more schools are being added. Trying to find out which ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is extended school year? Summer school?

I'm in MCPS, but ESY is for kids with special needs in my experience.

[Anonymous]

I don't think schools will know whether they can have extended day until they see their budgets.

[Anonymous]

This is not summer school or ESY for special needs students, but a longer school year for a school.

[Anonymous]

This is not a question about extended day, but schools with an extended, longer school year.

[Anonymous]

DCPS doesn't even know what day school is starting this fall. You think they'll know which few schools will have longer years?

[Anonymous]

Wait, does it change every year??

[Anonymous]

It could this year. If it follows history of the past 5 years, it will be 8/22. But a proposal related to Professional Development days could make it 8/29.

[Anonymous]

Folks - this topic is about DCPS working with some targeted schools to have a calendar that is a little different. There are many schools across the country that do this.

I have seen it such that there is an intersession in the fall after the 1st marking period. (1 or 2 weeks off) and similar break in the spring. Usually schools that have this model partner with an organization to have some type of academic programing during the intersession. It may be something such that they do a 1 week intensive around a topic or some hands on experience (EL Haynes did something with recording studios a few years back)

There is usually a shorter summer vacation. Some of the reasons this model is used is it shortens the summer vacation and if you have a population that is particularly vulnerable to the summer slump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks - this topic is about DCPS working with some targeted schools to have a calendar that is a little different. There are many schools across the country that do this.

I have seen it such that there is an intersession in the fall after the 1st marking period. (1 or 2 weeks off) and similar break in the spring. Usually schools that have this model partner with an organization to have some type of academic programing during the intersession. It may be something such that they do a 1 week intensive around a topic or some hands on experience (EL Haynes did something with recording studios a few years back)

There is usually a shorter summer vacation. Some of the reasons this model is used is it shortens the summer vacation and if you have a population that is particularly vulnerable to the summer slump.

DCPS is talking about actually adding days to the year, not allocating the breaks differently. From what I understand, breaks will be the same as for every other DCPS school, except summer break which would be shorter. I think it's a terrible idea.

[Anonymous]

If schools did a summer intersession with some academics (maybe different groups for enrichment/maintenance/remediation) but also some fun electives and extra outdoor time, I would be all over that. Gives kids a safe place to spend the summer and keep their brains working. It could be something like 3 2-week sessions and kids could sign up for some or all of them, so families that wanted to do other camps or travel or just relaxing at home had the option.

[Anonymous]

I think DCPS is just adding days to these schools. They will either end after other schools, start before others, or both. If anyone is at Raymond EC, maybe they can explain how it's being done. Raymond has it this year. Trying to figure out if this scheduling change impacts my lottery list.

[Anonymous]

DCPS does not do this like Haynes does - in DCPS it is 200 days at an extended year school, not 180, so the schools that do this eventually will have an extra month. (At Raymond his year it is an extra two weeks, and next year it is an extra month.) It is the regular calendar plus an added four weeks at the end. So most schools in DC will have 180 days, but the extended year schools will have 200.