The Board of Education has provided schools with opportunities to hold morning work sessions (late start school days for students) on multiple dates throughout the past four school years. The vision that has guided these work sessions has stemmed from the three questions that must be addressed if District 211 is to achieve its educational mission:
1.) What should our students know?
2.) How will we be able to tell if they know it?
3.) What will we do if they do not know it?
Many innovative programs and practices now in place had a genesis in these work sessions. While each school has specific educational needs, the universal focus for all schools, and all faculty, on specific educational objectives would guide morning work sessions. These include:
1.) Necessity of Literacy;
2.) Data provides real-time basis from which teaching can be accelerated;
3.) Removing roadblocks to learning; and
4.) Implementation of Literacy Practices
Late Start Days for the 2009-2010 school year are Tuesdays, September 22, 2009; October 6, 2009; November 3 and 17, 2009; December 1, 2009; January 12, 2010; February 9 and 23, 2010; March 9, 2010; and April 13, 2010.
For additional information on morning work sessions for staff, please visit: http://www.d211.org/pdf/Late_Start_Addl_Info09-10.pdf. |
