Dear Fairfax County Students, Staff and Families,
Please see two important opportunities to provide your feedback to FCPS. I hope you will participate!
Warm regards,
Rachna
Provide Feedback on the Draft Calendar Options by 1pm on January 31
Your feedback is important! FCPS is seeking community feedback on draft calendar options for the 2023-2024, 2024-2025, and 2025-2026 school years.
Please share your thoughts by completing the calendar feedback form. Feedback will be collected until Tuesday, January 31st at 1:00 p.m.
The draft calendars for the next three years were presented as "New Business" during the January 26th School Board meeting. Learn more about the development of the calendar.
Calendar Options Summary
- All four drafts fulfill the state requirement to provide 180 days OR 990 hours of instruction.
- Spring break is the same length and timing in all four draft versions. This is one week before Easter to align with surrounding jurisdictions.
- Veterans Day is a holiday in all four drafts.
- All four drafts have a 3-day Thanksgiving break.
- Religious holidays and observance days that fall on a school day are treated equally across all four calendars.
- The blue and purple calendars have a two-week Winter Break.
- The orange and green calendars have an 8-day Winter Break.
- For the blue, orange and purple calendars, school starts 2 weeks before Labor Day, while the green version starts 1 week before Labor Day.
- All drafts, except the purple calendar, have the same number of professional development days. The purple calendar has three additional professional development days.
Blue Calendar
View the full calendar: Blue Calendar SY2023-24
- Starts 2 weeks before Labor Day
- 2-week Winter Break
- 2023-24 School Year ends June 14
- 180 instructional days
- Full, 5-day instructional weeks: 6 full weeks - Quarter 1, 5 full weeks - Quarter 2, 7 full weeks - Quarter 3, 6 full weeks - Quarter 4
Orange Calendar
View the full calendar: Orange Calendar SY2023-24
- Starts 2 weeks before Labor Day
- Shortened Winter Break by 3 days
- 2023-24 School Year ends June 11
- 180 instructional days
- Full, 5-day instructional weeks: 6 full weeks - Quarter 1, 5 full weeks Quarter 2, 8 full weeks - Quarter 3, 7 full weeks - Quarter 4
Green Calendar
View the full calendar: Green Calendar SY2023-24
- Starts 1 week before Labor Day
- Shortened Winter Break by 3 days
- 2023-24 School Year ends June 20
- 180 instructional days
- Full, 5-day instructional weeks: 6 full weeks - Quarter 1, 6 full weeks - Quarter 2, 6 full weeks - Quarter 3, 7 full weeks - Quarter 4
Purple Calendar
View the full calendar: Purple Calendar SY2023-24
- Starts 2 weeks before Labor Day
- 2-week Winter Break
- 2023-24 School Year ends June 13
- 177 instructional days
- Full, 5-day instructional weeks: 6 full weeks - Quarter 1, 6 full weeks - Quarter 2, 6 full weeks - Quarter 3, 7 full weeks - Quarter 4
Strategic Planning Community Forums
FCPS is seeking input from families, students, teachers, staff, and community partners and organizations to develop a new Strategic Plan, which will establish our school district’s goals and focus our efforts on how to get there.
The easiest way to participate in and contribute to the direction of the FCPS’ Strategic Plan is to attend a Community Forum, being held in-person in each of the nine magisterial districts and several virtual meetings, too. Check out the schedule of Community Forums, including several virtual options, and register for one that is most convenient for you.
These Community Forums will provide every resident an opportunity to participate in and influence the direction of FCPS’ Strategic Plan, prior to its completion and formal adoption by the School Board. The goal is to have the final strategic plan by June 2023.
Hear more from Superintendent Reid as she explains the Strategic Plan process and its importance.
What Happens at a Community Forum?
- Community Forums will provide families, students, staff, and community members with an opportunity to review student achievement, access, and perception data, and identify both strengths and challenges within the data.
- Working in small groups, participants will use research-based goals as a framework to transition their observations into recommended goals for the strategic plan that are focused on our desired future state for students.
- As a culminating activity, participants will identify the one guarantee they would like FCPS to make regarding our students’ education.
- The data from the Community Forums will be synthesized and that information will be shared with the Core Planning Team to incorporate those recommendations into finalized strategic plan goals.
What Can I Do to Prepare?
It's not necessary to do anything in advance. We want you to bring your thoughts and experiences to the discussion.
If you'd like to review in advance, the data reports that will be shared at the Community Forums are available on the Strategic Planning website.
Learn more about our Strategic Planning process.
The views contained within this newsletter reflect the views of the individual school board member who is the publisher of this newsletter and may not reflect the views of the Fairfax County School Board.
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