What happens on a late start and early release days?

Every Tuesday morning, Nathan Hale starts 90 minutes late, at 10 am.  These later start days are used for professional collaboration.  Here are some things you might see during this time:

• Inter-disciplinary teams, like 10th grade Integrated Studies, 11th grade American Studies, or 9th grade academy teams planning culminating projects like the mock trial or the Harlem Renaissance exhibition.

• Departments like the Math, Art, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Music, Special Education, or World Language meeting to look at student work, share common assessments, and look for trends in data.
  

How does this help your student?  By collaboratively planning units of study, sharing student work, and critically assessing and reflecting on our practice, we get better at creating personalized, rigorous learning.

This Wednesday, February 6th, there will be a district-wide two hour early release so that educators throughout Seattle Schools can do important professional development work.  That means that school will be out at 1 pm on Wednesday.

Congratulations to Nathan Hale students who performed at the Bellevue Community College Jazz Festival last week!