Kenosha – Teachers at Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD) say the Kenosha Unified School Board needs to address the lack of preparation time they have at the district.
They say their current planning time on Fridays is consumed by professional development and learning sessions, taking away time to prepare lesson plans and address the needs of their students.
“I feel that each year more of our valuable independently led prep time is being controlled so that we are not able to collaborate on items that will best meet the needs of our students,” teacher Jennifer Kahle said in a press release issued by the Kenosha Education Association, the district’s teachers union.
The teachers plan to present the board with a resolution that includes “positive, proactive and reasonable solutions,” the release states, that they hope will give educators more time to prepare for students’ needs.
“More time for grading assignments allows more timely and more thoughtful feedback; more time to plan means more customized, meaningful lessons; more time to communicate with parents develops a stronger school-to-home relationship. More prep time shows kids they matter.”
The teachers are asking for more independent time on Fridays.
Teachers had asked Superintendent Sue Savaglio-Jarvis to place the prep time resolution on School Board agenda.
A KUSD survey distributed in February 2016 revealed 65 percent of respondents believe that independently led time, or teacher-led prep time, is the most important use of non-student contact time, according to the KEA.
