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Year-Round Education, means revising the traditional nine-month
agrarian calendar into a year-round calendar that allows for
continuous education with a shorter summer vacation and more frequent
breaks during the periods of instruction.
For a comparison of how the two
calendars apportion the year, click here.
This restructuring provides better learning conditions for students
and better working conditions for teachers. |
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history the year-round calendar has taken many forms, all designed to
take advantage of, or adapt to various community conditions. In
general, there are two basic forms of year-round calendars: Single Track and
Multi-track. |
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Single Track YRE |
| Single Track
provides a balanced calendar for a more continuous
period of instruction. Students and all school personnel
follow the same instructional and vacation schedule.
Single-track does not reduce class size, nor does it allow a
school to accommodate more students. The long summer vacation is
shortened with additional vacation days distributed throughout the school year into periods called
"intersessions." Intersessions allow time for remediation and enrichment
throughout the school year.
The most common types of single-track
calendars are 45-15, 60-20 and 90-30. |
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Click on the links below for examples of
each. |
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Multi-Track
is used primarily to alleviate overcrowding, although it also
incorporates the educational values of single-track YRE, including
intersessions. It was designed specifically for schools with a
shortage of classroom space. Multi-track is used to avoid double
sessions, building new schools and temporary structures. It not
only saves on capital construction costs, but on the ongoing costs
that are part of operating a new school. |
Multi-Track YRE |
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Multi-track divides students and teachers into groups, or tracks of
approximately the same size. Each track is assigned its own schedule.
Teachers and students assigned to a particular track follow the same
schedule and are in school and on vacation at the same time.
Multi-track creates a "school-within-a-school" concept |
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Example: implementing a
four-track year-round calendar extends the capacity of a school by
33%. A school with the capacity of 750 students can accommodate 1,000
students, as only three tracks of 250 would be in school at the same
time; there would always be one track on vacation or intersession
every day of the school year. A five track model (60-15) allows for a
25% gain in capacity. |
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Click on the links below to see popular examples
of multi-track calendars. |
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