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Putting the Year back in School Year

Putting the Year back in School Year. Year-Round Education By: Kelly Husky Kimberly Peeler Shelby Milsap Jennifer Austin. Mission Statement:.

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Putting the Year back in School Year

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  1. Putting the Year back in School Year Year-Round Education By: Kelly Husky Kimberly Peeler Shelby Milsap Jennifer Austin

  2. Mission Statement: • We firmly believe that by implementing year round education, we are providing a more continuous learning environment for students. By providing students with a continuous learning environment, students perform better on tests and retain information for a longer period of time. Our goal is to make sure students perform to the best of their abilities and we, as teachers, make sure this goal is reached through our year-round school year that is balanced across a 12 month period with equal instructional periods and vacation weeks.

  3. What is Year-Round Education?(YRE) • It is the process of reorganizing the school year to allow for more continuous learning. • It breaks up the long summer vacation into shorter, more frequent vacations throughout the school year. • The most common form of YRE is 45/15 schedule, and it can be on a single-track schedule or a multi-track schedule. • Students go to the same classes and receive the same instruction as students on a traditional calendar.

  4. Standard School YearLong summer vacation(12 weeks), followed by a long period of In session days

  5. 45/15 ScheduleThe school operates 45 days on, then 15 off

  6. The National Association for Year-Round Education: • It is a non-profit organization • It promotes the concept of year-round education by providing leadership and service to individuals and organizations on all aspects of time and learning. • The association encourages research, produces publications, provides consultants to schools and districts, and conducts yearly conferences to provide the most up-to-date information.

  7. Teachers See Benefits in YRE: • They spend less time reviewing material they had taught the year before. • Less Summer Learning Loss • They can cover more academic ground each year. • The breaks refresh students and teachers. • It has a big effect among at-risk and low-income students. • It helps the kids that do not get much reading or learning at home during the summer.

  8. Regina Brown, Elementary PrincipalLead Hill School District Reasons she believes year round education is a good idea: • Teachers do not get so burned out. • Students do not get so burned out in the scoring. • Test scores would be better. • Students retain more over a three to four week break. After 5 weeks they begin to regress. • Would not have to do all the maintenance in the summer.

  9. Regina Brown, Elementary PrincipalLead Hill School District Reasons she believes year round education is NOT a good idea: • The public does not understand what Year round school really is, some think you go 365 days a year. • The Tourist industry does not like it. Not sure why. • For seniors graduating and teachers taking college classes the schedules probably would not match up. • If all schools in a conference were not doing the year round school it would mess up sports schedules and schools would have to pay coaches 240 day contracts instead of 200 or 210 and that would be bigger budget expenses. • If all schools in a district were not on the year round schedule which they don't have to be that could cause problems with child care.

  10. References: • http://www.nayre.org/ - National Association of Year-Round Education. • http://www.nayre.org/Louisville%20CJ%20July%2017.pdf – Teachers see benefits

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