RSD May Reduce Class Time for Secondary Schools
by Matt McGee on January 18th, 2010. Filed under: Richland Schools.If you have a student at the elementary level in the Richland School District, you already know that your kids come home early every Friday while the teachers have what they call “collaboration time.” Now the district is considering adding collaboration time for teachers in middle and high schools, too.
The district will host five public meetings to discuss the options that are on the table (see below). The meetings are planned as follows:
Wednesday, January 20: Richland High School library
Thursday, January 21: Chief Joseph Middle School library
Wednesday, January 27: Carmichael Middle School library
Wednesday, February 3: Hanford High School library
Thursday, February 4: Enterprise Middle School library
Each meeting will start at 7:00 pm.
And here, via email from the RSD offices, are the three options being considered:
1) Early dismissal at 1:18 pm one day a week (Wednesday most likely). This option would provide 72 minutes of collaboration time. There would be a net loss of 28 hours of instructional time per year. Fridays are not possible because of transportation issues.
2) Early dismissal at 1:30 pm one day a week (Wednesday most likely). This option would provide 60 minutes of collaboration time. There would be a net loss of 21 hours of instructional time per year. Fridays are not possible because of transportation issues.
3) Early dismissal at 12:15 pm every other Friday. This option would provide 135 minutes of collaboration time. There would be a net loss of 27 hours of instructional time per year.
Assuming one of these options is approved, I’m guessing it’ll go into effect with next year’s school year. But the district’s email didn’t indicate that one way or another.
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[...] could spend more time in group collaboration. We outlined the three options in our post last week, RSD May Reduce Class Time for Secondary Schools. Each option would’ve cut back on instructional time for students, and the district announced [...]