Reimagining
The Student Experience
An eight-day schedule with longer class periods and fewer class meetings per day reduces the frenetic pace for learners and allows course workload to be distributed in a more manageable way. Longer class periods afford students and teachers the opportunities for more sustained and deeper learning and provide increased opportunities to use the city as their classroom. Such a schedule will also foster balance among the academic, athletic and artistic programs, as well as other aspects of students’ lives.
As we reimagine the ebb and flow of the daily and weekly schedule so it can support new and innovative frameworks for teaching and learning:
- We will assess on an ongoing basis whether the new schedule reduces the frenetic pace for learners, allows for deeper and more engaged learning, and allows their course workload to be distributed, and make refinements to reflect these evaluations when called to do so.
- We will assess on an ongoing basis whether the new schedule supports time for teachers to more deeply engage their students through project‐based work, collaborative work, off‐campus initiatives, interdisciplinary connections, and make refinements to reflect these evaluations when called to do so.
- We will look for ways to coordinate programs, both academic and co-curricular, that reduce conflicts and foster balance among the academic, athletic and artistic programs, as well as other aspects of students’ lives.
- We will remain committed to providing ongoing support to faculty and families as we grow into the new schedule.
