The Indiana Area School board meets a week from tonight, and tonight’s Academic and Extracurricular Committee meeting will inform much of next week’s agenda.
At the top of the list of items the committee will discuss is the district’s Health & Safety Plan, and whether or not to recommend its adoption by the full board.
Issues to be resolved are a proposal to revise the opening schedule and have classes start at Indiana Area on September 8th, with issues such as students having to deal with the heat while wearing a mask, and giving teachers more time to adapt to a hybrid teaching model or even all remote learning, if necessary.
The committee will also discuss reopening options, with an eye toward giving parents as much time as possible to make plans for the fall, and they’ll look at recommending the adoption of a resolution backing flexibility in the state’s requirement for 180 days of instruction, or 900 hours per year for elementary students and 990 hours for secondary students.
Other items that the board may consider are “redefining ready”, for college and careers; the Foreign Exchange Program, the Laptop Initiative; and the IDEAL Distance Education program versus the Cyber School concept.
Indiana Area Director of Education Rob Heinrich will visit Indiana In the Morning on WCCS at 8:10 this morning.
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