![]() “So we created a committee to work on redesigning the high school schedules to be more efficient, and also better aligned with our values in education.” “We quickly realized that without creating a more efficient high school schedule, we would have challenges with later end times-with family routines and extracurricular activities and other conflicts that would negatively impact student wellness,” Romer said. Students, families, and faculty were extensively surveyed as the district began to work on the initiative, and it became clear that simply pushing the school day back, creating significantly later end times, would have a negative impact on the community, according to Romer. Work on redesigning the school schedules began a little over two years ago, when members of the Newton community were interested in changing high school start times to be better aligned with adolescent sleep schedules, said Toby Romer, assistant superintendent of Newton secondary schools. ![]() Currently, Newton North starts at 7:50 a.m., and Newton South starts at 7:40 a.m. The district is reviewing three different alternatives for new start times-which would push them back to either 8:10, 8:45, or 9:00 a.m. The more efficient school day would facilitate a possible later start time for the high schools. Under the new plan, the school day at both high schools would last 6 hours and 45 minutes, with the exception of Tuesdays, which would last 6 hours and 25 minutes. The initiative plans to align Newton North and South high schools, which currently operate on different schedules, in the fall of 2020.Ĭurrently, the longest school days at Newton North and South-which have rotating schedules that change every day-last 7 hours and 30 minutes and 7 hours and 40 minutes, respectively. The Newton school district is making plans for its high schools to adopt a new, more efficient schedule that would cut the length of an average day by 24 minutes and allow for possible later starts to the school day. ![]()
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