There are times during the year where the schedule is tossed out the window. The result is some loss of stability. We have optional conferences Monday and Tuesday, which means early dismissal at 11:30. After that we have our normal Wednesday early dismissal but an assembly from 9:30-10:15. Thursday we have a fairly normal day, aside from an art docent coming into one of the rotations. Oh, and Friday is a professional development day.
I feel like this is fairly typical of conference time. While we are staunch defenders of instructional time, some loss is inevitable when it is taken out of your control. Even though we try to maintain some semblance of order with our rotations, kids are still fixated on the differences "You mean there is no 3rd rotation? You mean we are going to an assembly? What about homework? How does this work?" That is right, some kids ask for homework... which does say something about the job we do. They still want order.
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