We need to provide a minimum of 1,080 instructional hours and we need to have 191 days of Teacher contract days.

Spring Break is March 11 – 15. It aligns with the Kirkwood calendar since many of our students take Kirkwood classes.

They have been adjusted so each window is 5 days long.

We are going to continue to look at this potential change next year regarding rationale, benefits, etc. The committee didn’t want to move forward with a change that impacts everyone without more conversations and data.

We looked into data of staff attendance on Friday early outs vs. the full day professional learning days. Attendance is comparable for full day releases and early outs. In addition, building principals need regular scheduled time to communicate with staff as well as the district needing additional time to provide staff training on a regular basis.

We cannot do this. Per Iowa code 279.10, we can’t start any earlier than August 23rd.

When we make the calendar, we have to take into account student contact hours and contract days for staff. We can always make adjustments to include more days off during the school year, but then we would need to push the last day of school to later. It is not possible to end any earlier due to the contact hours and contract days. In addition, we usually have weather days to make up which will add days to the end of the year as well.

Each workgroup has their own calendars which can be found on the Staff Resource Hub under Human Resources Services, then Workgroup Calendars. In addition, this calendar is for families and students.

All workgroups have their own calendar that specifically says when they are expected to report to work and when it is a holiday. They can be found on the Staff Resource Hub under Human Resources Services, then Workgroup Calendars.

This is challenging because if we mark days as potential weather make-up days during the year, we haven’t always used them in the past because people want notification in advance for when days will be made up and this is difficult since weather cannot be controlled.

There is 25 hours of time built in for early outs and late starts for weather delays. If we do not use or do not need this time, we can always make adjustments. At this time, full days of instruction missed due to inclement weather will be added on to the end of the year.

The conference window has been adjusted and a comment has been added so there will not be conferences held on Halloween.

They are days off for Teachers for working conferences.

As a district, we are dedicated to providing our staff with the appropriate training to best serve and meet the needs of our students.

Because we need to keep both semesters similar in length, due to required coursework, we cannot end 1st semester before winter break.

We can add this to our continued conversations for potential changes for the future.

We could make this adjustment but we would have to add all those additional days into June.