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St. Johnsbury Academy changing schedule

2008-03-11 09:49:11

A new St. Johnsbury Academy class day schedule, planned to debut at the start of the 2008-2009 school year, will result in greatly increased opportunities for students in academic difficulty to obtain the individualized “student-centered” help they need to succeed, Tom Lovett, the Academy’s Headmaster, said this week.

The new schedule will have five 70-minute “blocks” per day, each semester. The current schedule, which has been in place since the 2000-2001 school year, has four 80- minute blocks per day. Student course loads will remain unchanged, with seniors required to take a minimum of seven courses during the school year and all other studentstaking eight.

Required study halls, which had been eliminated when the school switched to itscurrent schedule several years ago, will be reinstated for freshmen and sophomores, as well as upperclassmen in academic or disciplinary trouble.

A major benefit of the new schedule is smaller class sizes. The new schedule will reduce the average class size from 18 to roughly 12-14. This reduction in class size is made possible by faculty picking up extra assignments enabling classroom teachers to more effectively address the needs of their students in each class.

A newly-created Center for Academic Achievement will be the centerpiece of the expanded remediation and enrichment opportunities.

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