The Carroll ISD board of trustees discussed a draft for next year’s academic calendar during its Nov. 14 meeting.
During the meeting, Gina Peddy, executive director of curriculum and instruction, said several factors were taken into consideration when the campus calendar committee and district advisory committee discussed options for the 2023-24 academic calendar. These factors included consistency and balance in the amount of instruction days in each semester, built in professional development days for staff and ending the school year prior to Memorial Day. Other calendar planning considerations were to ensure the state required 187 contract days for staff and the minimum of 75,600 student instructional minutes.
The campus calendar committee had campus principals, teachers, athletic directors, fine arts staff and district parents, Peddy said.
The calendar draft has 173 days of student instructional time. This is split between 85 days for the fall semester and 88 days for the spring semester. In 2022-23’s academic calendar, the fall semester had 81 days with the spring semester consisting of 92 days.
