February Break Credit Recovery Teachers Southbridge High School

Overall vision for February Break Academy:

• Credit recovery classes will be offered for English History Math Science and other core academic classes where SHS students need to recover credit.
• FYI there are two groups of students attending: Grade Recovery (students who failed a class with a grade between 51-59 in first semester) and Attendance Recovery (students who exceeded allowed absences in our attendance-for-credit policy)
• Grade Recovery students can boost their grades in up to 4 subjects. They must attend all 4 days and earn an overall grade of Pass from their instructor to obtain a 5 point bonus to their grade in a course for Semester 1
• Attendance Recovery students can excuse one full day of Absence per day they attend. Credit Recovery students do not necessarily need to attend all 4 days - e.g. a student who only needs to excuse one period or one day of absence could attend a single day to move those absences to excused.

Teacher Responsibilities:

• Teachers will need to take daily attendance
• Teachers will be expected to uphold all SHS student expectations for dress code behavior use of technology and any other expectations communicated by SHS administration
• Teachers will be provided with a course packet of 4 days of simple independent work reviewing key concepts.
• Teachers will support students with working through the review packets and report a daily classwork score for each student to the February Credit Recovery coordinator.
• Teachers will need to grade some work but it will be easy to grade either automatic self-grading or with a simple key.

Other information:

• There will be a February Break Academy Coordinator who will review plans and expectations with all the teachers before February break and who will be on-site every day to supervise the academy.
• There will also be a high school administrator on site daily for support.
• The daily schedule will run approximately as follows:

9:00am - Staff report prepare classrooms & materials to be ready to receive students.

9:15am - Student arrival. Students can pick up breakfast from the cafeteria and eat it in the classroom.

9:30am - 10:15am - 1st Period*

10:20am - 11:05am - 2nd Period*

11:10am - 11:55am - 3rd Period*

12:00pm - 12:45pm - 4th Period*

12:45pm - 1:15pm - Lunch & dismissal - students transition to the cafeteria at the end of 4th period. Students will have lunch & then dismiss from the cafeteria.