Our district still has those.* Archived Message
Posted by EffinIllini on March 7, 2024, 9:55:30, in reply to "We had those. Called them "teacher institute days" IIRC*"
Previous Message Previous Message I do not remember that growing up. Previous Message ? 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.
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- School-related sidejack. Do your districts have "asynchronous days" where kids do assignments @ home - ATL March 7, 2024, 9:07:32
- Only if there is a weather issue* - Taz March 7, 2024, 9:55:38
- No. If the kids are out of school it doesn't count against the 180 day calendar. - EffinIllini March 7, 2024, 9:54:11
- I don't think so...but my kids are also in 1st and 2nd grade so...* - haighter March 7, 2024, 9:40:08
- No but they do have these random “teacher workdays” where the kids don’t come in - snipes824 March 7, 2024, 9:28:50
- Our district has the option to convert a teacher workday to one of these to make up for weather - memyselfandillini March 7, 2024, 9:16:38
- no. only remote learning days but we are doing away with those and just going back to snow days* - lcubed March 7, 2024, 9:13:05
- Not prescheduled. - Chicago1995 March 7, 2024, 9:11:56
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