Proponents of the schedule claim that it improves school climate and student behavior,
do teachers find it harder to reign in their students on Mondays coming off a 3 day weekend every week? I feel that sometimes it is hard for those students to come back and comply after a long 3 day weekend, but maybe they become used to it.
Health concerns include increased food insecurity and drug use.
with 4DSW how do we make sure that our students are being fed? there are situations where when kids come to school breakfast and lunch maybe their only meals they eat that day. So how do we make sure they are fed for 3 days at home instead of just the 2.
In short, while teachers may prefer a four-day schedule, that preference does not appear strong enough on average to outweigh other factors that drive employment decisions, such as salary, leadership quality, workload, and career opportunities.
Those that have 4DSW, how does that change your workload and salary?
students may also benefit from non-core academic time at school each day, such as morning meetings, recess, passing time between classes, advisory periods, and lunch. And they get less of that time on a 4DSW because they have fewer days of school on average (148 days) than five-day week schools (179 days).
This I feel is interesting as we have another student teacher at our school and their advisor didn't consider morning meetings beneficial in teaching/learning for the student teacher. There is so much that you can do during morning meeting that are life skill benefits and academic benefits. Life skills being month, year, days of the week, counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's. There is so much that you can do during this morning meeting time that I would hate to see that time different. Even the recess thing, it is so beneficial for our students to get movement and also build relationships and their social skills.
On average, districts add about 50 minutes to each school day.
How does this affect classified staff? Does their pay still increase and are they still hourly? Or how does their contracts look. Actually even for certified staff do their hours per day get longer beyond the time added to the school days?
research examining four-day schedules’ impacts on students and schools.
I find this interesting and am curious about because we are a 5 day school week and just within the past couple years 4 day school weeks have been brought up. So interested in finding out more information on this.