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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just going to go ahead and predict this: After hearing from our principal at Back to School night about the 3 hour early releases for teacher training related to the new literacy curriculum … I believe that we will see the return of regularly scheduled half days in the not so distant future. Maybe not next school year … maybe not weekly as they were in the past … but they will happen. I would guess monthly or 2x a month/every other week. The principal was lamenting how they lost the half day Mondays and now the teachers have the same amount of work to get done but less non instructional time to do it. [/quote]

I disagree with that principal. When we had early release Mondays (the students were in for more than half a day since we dismissed two hours early), we had shorter specials. Mondays were often taken up by meetings. Daily planning time was shorter and those were often used for team meetings. When early dismissals ended under Dr Garza they added time to specials. At the time, ES teachers were told we would have a minimum of 300 minutes a week of planning. A minimum of 240 would be used as protected teacher directed planning time and a minimum of 60 minutes as collaborative time. That’s the current policy. Unfortunately many schools schedule 120 minutes of collaborative meeting time each week which leaves only 180 as teacher directed.

There’s more to get done and there could be more time (although still not enough) if administrators allowed teachers to use needed. [/quote]

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