Snyder ISD students will get to start their spring break a day early this year.
While spring break is scheduled March 9 through 13, the school district has decided to hold a professional development day the Friday before the break, March 6. Classes will not be held that day, and the schools will be closed to students.
Superintendent Dr. Eddie Bland said teacher orientation with the district’s new innovative partner, Responsive Education Solutions, is the driving force behind the professional development day.
“We needed a day of staff development for orientation for our junior high (school) staff to work with ResponsiveEd,” Bland said. “That was the easiest day to do it.”
Snyder ISD has time built into its educational calendar for such contingencies.
“Our attendance for students — student attendance accountability — is by minutes, not days. They have to attend 75,600 minutes every year,” Bland said. “Our calendar has plenty of minutes, and it’s not anything we would have to make up instructionally for missed days for students. We have plenty of minutes in our calendar.”
In addition to the junior high school staff orientation with ResponsiveEd, teachers throughout the district can use the additional work day to prepare for standardized testing, Bland said.
“Our other campuses will be doing staff development finishing up some grading periods and making last minute preps, because we’re about to go full force into testing season,” he said.
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