Flexible Learning Year report shared in public meetings
December 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
291 residents responded to District 518′s FLY survey
WORTHINGTON Over the course of two public meetings on Monday, about a dozen parents and community members heard District 518 Superintendent John Landgaard report on the first two years of the Flexible Learning Year (FLY) calendar. Continue Reading
“FLY originated with a vision to improve and make systemic changes to student achievement”
“The program’s goals included creating more high-impact learning time for students prior to high-stakes assessments and to enable improved staff collaboration and development”
“The hypothesis was that by June 30, 2013, the consortium would see increased student achievement and established professional learning communities,” said Landgaard.
“With two years’ worth of test results now available, Landgaard shared the data for both the entire consortium and for District 518 specifically.”
“In District 518, reading scores improved very slightly, math scores dropped somewhat, writing assessments registered a small decline and the composite ACT scores of local students also dropped a bit.”
You tried it, it obviously isn’t helping raise test scores…..if anything, things have gotten worse according to your own stats. Let the kids and staff enjoy summer and start AFTER the Labor Day holiday. That’s my hypothesis. I have another one but it will be construed as racist.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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