To make up for an unprecedented string of weather closures, the Anchorage School District is proposing lengthening school days for a period of time, along with other calendar alterations.
to the Anchorage School Board on Monday, superintendent Jharrett Bryantt said the district is proposing to add 30 minutes to the end of each school day from Jan. 30 through March 9. That will make up the equivalent of three school days.
Bryantt said the district chose Jan. 30 as the starting date “because campus leaders need time to finalize how this impacts school schedules once we get back to school given the upcoming winter holiday.” The Anchorage School District is also proposing to change Feb. 22 and 23 — currently scheduled as half-days with parent-teacher conferences — into full instructional days, Bryantt said. A professional development day scheduled for Feb. 24 would also be turned into a full school day, Bryantt said.
“This adds roughly five instructional days back to the calendar,” Bryantt said of the proposal. “We recognize that this plan, and any plan, entails tradeoffs. ... The rationale behind this plan is that it minimally alters the calendar and recognizes the importance of instructional time.”District officials still need to discuss details of the proposal with teachers union leadership, Bryantt said.
He said the district wasn’t able to shift to remote learning during the recent snowstorms, like the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District did, because students would have needed to come into schools to get technology and paper materials to be able to continue learning at home.Bryantt said that he anticipates remote learning will be an “essential part” of the district’s inclement weather strategy moving forward and that he’s asked district staff to begin planning for it.
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