Normal Duty Year. The HEA and District recognize that there are three main objectives pertaining to the development of the school year calendar. The first one is to meet State Statutes. The second is to provide healthy breaks for staff and students (two weeks at winter break and one week at spring break). The third is the School Board would like the school year end reasonably early in June (i.e. families can participate in summer programs). To allow flexibility to accomplish these three goals, the normal duty year shall be 185 duty days for teachers, except for new teachers as defined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the mentorship program. The maximum number of student-instructional days shall be 176. The decision of the number of days shall be left to the School Board. The remaining days shall be preparation, workshops, or conferences. It is also recognized that half-day, early-release, conference days are to be counted as student-contact days. The calendar committee will create calendars in a two-year cycle during non-contract-negotiation years.
