Superintendent Charles Dupre previously said he hopes to use this meeting to present more fleshed-out instructional plans for the fall.
“One of the things we've talked about in Fort Bend—in our boardroom with our board as well as with our staff—is that there is no going back to how things once were,” Dupre said during a July 1 virtual town hall. “As we plan this new year and truly every year after this, we will be reimagining how we do education."
The district has already announced that it plans to offer both in-person and online learning, but a hybrid model—where students are in the classroom part time and at home part time—will be a fallback.
“We have learned so many valuable things in the couple of months that we did online learning that we are going to build on going forward,” Dupre continued during the online event. “Life in Fort Bend will never be the same. We are truly transforming our students’ education experience.”
Additionally, the board of trustees will consider changes to the 2020-21 calendar. All changes to the calendar must be approved by the board.
A draft version of the proposed calendar available online shows the board will consider adding two weeks of intercession in October and three additional days in February. Intercession periods would be used for providing instruction to certain students, as rolling breaks or as virus or bad weather makeup days, according to the district document.
The first day of school will remain Aug. 12, and the last day will be June 2, 2021. The proposed calendar does include “COVID-19 tentative” days from June 4-11. The previously approved calendar had the last day of instruction as May 26, 2021.
The district has previously stated that it will ask parents to declare whether they want children to receive face-to-face or online learning during the week of July 27. Students will be committed to their choice for at least the first nine weeks of school, Dupre has said.
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