School-related sidejack. Do your districts have "asynchronous days" where kids do assignments @ homeArchived Message
Posted by ATL on March 7, 2024, 9:07:32
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APS has them and they seem to have replaced "teacher workdays" that I'm more familiar with. They're not very common - maybe a day or two per semester - and pre-planned. Teachers give students assignments that they are required to complete over those days. Teachers are in school doing whatever they do on workdays (I assume catch up, training, etc.).
I think this allows the workdays to not interfere with the 180-day required calendar and allows the district to maximize actual vacation periods, which APS is pretty generous with - we get a week for fall break, a week for Thanksgiving, two weeks for Christmas, a week for winter break, and a week for spring break. Of course, we start on August 1 here.