Up Ahead: CHS Schedule Changes for 2024-25
A Message from Assistant Superintendent Ed KleinEmailed on 4.11.24 to Grades 7-11 Students, Families and All Staff
April 11, 2024
Dear Parents and Community Members:
Planning for the 2024-25 school year, we are implementing minor changes to the Chardon High School bell schedule, effective the first day of the new school year - August 14, 2024.
These changes focus on increasing student achievement and align with safety and security enhancements.
The staff and administration at CHS reviewed changes to the schedule in the Fall, and presented changes to the Board of Education in January.
The Key Takeaways
- No change to start and end times
- Maintaining hybrid block schedule (block periods two days a week)
- Eliminating late start Wednesdays
- Maintain open campus as a senior privilege
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Bell Schedule Changes
- Maintaining the hybrid block schedule (block periods two days a week)
- Integrating "Topper Time" and "Circuit” into class periods
- Increasing the number of class periods from seven to eight
- Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, class periods will be 44 minutes
- Wednesday and Thursday, class periods will be 95 minutes
- Incorporating teacher professional learning community (PLC) time into the school day and eliminating late-start Wednesday
Open Campus Changes
- Maintain a signed parent/guardian authorization
- On track to graduate in May, 2025, and stay on-track (no F’s)
- Cumulative 3.0 GPA, and maintain a quarterly 3.0 GPA
- No more than three (3) tardies per quarter, and no unexcused or excessive excused absences
- No behavioral referrals
UPDATE: FAQs on Open Campus Changes were posted to the District website and shared with families via email on April 15, 2024. Please click the above FAQs link to review.
Ed Klein, Ph.D.
Assistant Superintendent