Morning Work Sessions (Student Late Start Days)

The Board of Education has provided schools with opportunities to hold morning work sessions (late start school days for students) on multiple dates throughout the past three school years. The vision that has guided these work sessions has stemmed from the three questions that must be addressed if District 211 is to achieve its educational mission:

1.) What should our students know?
2.) How will we be able to tell if they know it?
3.) What will we do if they do not know it?

Many innovative programs and practices now in place had a genesis in these work sessions. While each school has specific educational needs, the universal focus for all schools, and all faculty, on specific educational objectives would guide morning work sessions. These include:

1.) Necessity of Literacy;
2.) Data provides real-time basis from which teaching can be accelerated;
3.) Removing roadblocks to learning; and
4.) Implementation of Literacy Practices

At its September 25, 2008 meeting, the Board authorized the Superintendent to approve morning work sessions, each 90 minutes in length, on Tuesdays, October 28, 2008; November 18, 2008; December 9, 2008; February 3 and 17, 2009; March 10, 2009; April 7, 2009; and May 19, 2009. On these days, classes at Fremd, Hoffman Estates, and Schaumburg High Schools will begin at 9:10 a.m., while classes at Conant and Palatine High Schools will start at 9:55 a.m.

For additional information on morning work sessions for staff, please visit: http://www.d211.org/pdf/Work_Session_Summary.pdf.