Time and Timing: Reflections on the School Year Calendar and Length of Day

10/13/2017

Many of you know that we are a year-round school. For those who are new to us, our “initial” term of a school year is our summer term. This first year that summer term was a short one that ended the last week of September. Check out a short slide show of our experiences below.

We did an extended field experience at Myrtle Beach State Park!

Our short summer term was because we began our normal year-round calendar at the same time that Horry County Schools began its traditional calendar. Some may wonder why we chose to start a private school with a year-round calendar. Certainly, year-round programs have been introduced before and have not been very popular.

So, why do a relatively unpopular school calendar?
...Because it makes a difference in children's learning!

So having longer school days (8 to 4 with drop off from 7:30 to 4:30) and having 40 weeks of school per year versus 36 weeks are both things that help students learn more and retain more of what they have learned. Remember, we came into being to demonstrate that preparation for higher education begins with Kindergarten and that the whole child needs to be taken into account in designing the learning experience. We stand by that need. A nice by-product is that parents can find shorter activities for their children in each season (which includes time for summer camps, ski camps, family vacations and so forth).

At the Renaissance Preparatory Academy, we are structured to help your child succeed and learn challenging curriculum well!

Call for an appointment today... 843-800-0590! Schedule an appointment via email using Renaissance.Headmaster@gmail.com.

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Founder's Blog by
Janice Black, Ed. Specialist,
Ph. D.

Dr. Black is an active college professor in Entrepreneurship with a background in Education. Her scholarly publications have received over 1700 citations when the average professor rarely reaches 50 citations.

She is passionate about school reform that results in students prepared for college and entrepreneurial/ professional life.. She is initiating this school as a non-profit with no return on her investing funds and no payment for any services provided. She just wants to support the starting of a school that directly and indirectly supports the acquisition by our children beginning at kindergarten of knowledge skills and abilities needed for future entrepreneurs, future college students and future professionals.