
Why are they 2 different sets of dates? |
True. Students were in school for about 4.5+ hours. A half day would only be 3 hours and 20 min. |
I suspect it’s lead by a fixed number of people (probably from Gatehouse) who can’t be at 100 schools on the same day/time. |
Or perhaps a fixed number of trainers from for-profit curriculum companies that get more money for providing endless training to teachers who could be teaching instead? |
Even better, bring back all-day teacher work days every Monday like they had during Covid. It was so much easier to get things done. |
I was just replying to the PP who said they should bring back early release Mondays so that teachers could have more planning time. I just wanted to give a little historical info about when it ended. The state is requiring this professional development and they have to find somewhere to put it. |
This is a great idea! And year-long school to make up for the extra days! |
Email Youngkin. |
Do you follow your doctor’s schedule so closely that you know how professional development he does? |
I live in McLean! All my friends and neighbors are doctors and lawyers ... |
Or maybe an actual principal who knows a little more than you has entered the chat and is grateful that there’s some acknowledgment of the time it’s going to take to meet the state’s requirement to train teachers on the new reading basal. If you have some ideas about how to find hours of training time for teachers, please share. My colleagues and I would love to hear them. |
How hard is it to teach reading? As long as you don't teach kids to guess what the word the picture is meant to represent, then it seems straightforward enough? C-A-T |
If only. (ES Teacher) Maybe you could work with Younkin to simplify the training since you seem to have a handle on it. |
It was in the link in the OP- scroll down. https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/safety-and-transportation/limited-early-release-mondays |
Teacher also. Won’t this just cause more problems with subs. It was intended that families with childcare issues can stay but now anyone can stay and then what? Whole classes need people watching them with no teaching going on? I just don’t see how this is supposed to work. |