What Could The Calendar Look Like?
What Could the Calendar Look Like?
The calendar model being explored would organize the school year differently while continuing to meet Missouri's required instructional time.
Under the concept being studied, the regular academic year would include approximately 150 Instructional days from August through April, followed by additional learning opportunities in May and June.
This is a working model, not a final calendar. Specific dates, schedules, programs, and requirements are still being developed through the district's design-team process.
The Model at a Glance
Regular School Year
August through April
- Approximately 150 instructional days
- Five days of school each week
- Approximately 18 additional instructional minutes each day
- 75 instructional days each semester
- No regular early-out Fridays
- Traditional holiday breaks would remain, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Break
- Professional development days would remain
Students would continue receiving the same required instructional time, organized differently.
May Pathways
Summer School 1 – Approximately four weeks
May would become an additional summer school session designed around individual student needs.
Students could participate in one of two pathways:
Cub Success Pathway: Focused intervention and academic support for students who need additional time to demonstrate proficiency, complete unfinished learning, recover credit, or prepare for the next grade level.
Enrichment Pathway: Additional learning opportunities for students who have demonstrated proficiency and are ready to explore learning beyond the regular curriculum.
June Summer School
Summer School 2 – Traditional Summer School
June would continue to provide a more traditional summer school experience.
- Open enrollment
- Academic support
- Credit recovery
- Skill building
- Enrichment opportunities
- Free breakfast and lunch
Same required instructional time. A different way of organizing the school year.
What Would Happen in May?
May is one of the most important pieces of the model still being developed. Rather than treating May as simply an additional month away from school, the concept being explored would use May intentionally to provide students with either targeted academic support or additional enrichment.
Cubs Success Pathway
Who might participate?
Students who have not yet demonstrated proficiency, have unfinished learning, are failing a course, need credit recovery, or may need additional support before advancing.
What could it include?
- Targeted reading and math support
- Small-group instruction
- Progress monitoring
- Credit recovery
- Preparation for the next grade or course
For students assigned to the Cub Success Pathway, successful completion could become part of promotion or credit requirements. Those specific criteria have not yet been established and are part of the work ahead.
Enrichment Pathway
Who might participate?
Students who have demonstrated proficiency and choose to continue learning during May.
What could it include?
- STEM and project-based learning
- Career exploration
- Creative arts
- Leadership and service
- Advanced problem-solving
- Community partnerships and extended learning experiences
Enrichment would be designed to extend learning rather than repeat material students have already mastered.
This is a concept being explored, not an approved calendar.
Design teams are now studying the academic, operational, financial, staffing and family impacts of a potential 150-day regular instructional calendar. Their work will help determine whether this model could be a viable option for Monett Schools.