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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leader in Me can go.  Most schools don’t like it which means they need to work with Counselors to find more appropriate programs.

Innovative School calendar can stay.  Particular after the pandemic that needs additional time to find its rhythm.  One of the bigger issues being new families not knowing that school starts earlier.

Virtual Academy can stay because the point has always been to expand how it operates giving students access to classes not in their home school.

What they can do is standardized some of these different named HS programs that are essentially the same so that those program can learn from one another, have similar program evaluation, and  the can be enhanced as having more kids in them.[/quote]

The schools that have the innovative calendar hate it. They did an evaluation study and it showed nothing beneficial. It's going away.[/quote]

+1 The evaluation was really damning, to be honest. I honestly thought the IS calendar would be helpful for the most at-risk kids, as it has shown benefits in other districts, but the data is clear. No gains in fall testing, no remediation of summer slide, and a bunch of kids who have already entered "truancy" territory before the regular school year even starts.

It's not just new families, either. I'm guessing a big part of the problem is that one of the IS schools is K-2 but the "paired" 3-5 school is on a traditional calendar, but even the K-5 school can't get kids to turn up until Labor Day. [/quote]

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