Year-Round Calendar and Intersessions
LJA is a year-round school on an approximately 45/15 day calendar year – the same number of days as a traditional school, but arranged differently. Students attend school for approximately 45 days and then have a 15 day break. The 15-day break includes vacation days as well as optional intersession opportunities in November, February, and May, and a longer vacation in December, with the month of August off. Year-round schools are becoming increasingly popular for several reasons. Year-round schools:
- Eliminate the significant learning loss that occurs during the summer.
- Allow more time for new learning, as teachers do not have to spend time re-teaching concepts each Fall.
- Increase opportunities for unique, experiential immersion activities.
Intersessions are optional enrichment programs during the Fall, Winter, and Spring breaks. Intersessions complement the school's curriculum and allow students to immerse themselves in disciplines and activities of interest. Some of the opportunities may include performance and visual arts, foreign language immersion, career exploration, spoken word, writing workshops, community service, and outdoor expeditions. One outdoor experience will be a trip to the Audubon Center of the Northwoods.
Teachers, student teachers, artists, community experts, support staff, and educational assistants lead intersessions.
School Calendar
October 2008
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
| |
|
|
Parent Night
6:00-7:30 |
|
| 6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| |
Parent Info Session
6:30-7:30pm |
|
|
|
| 13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
|
Student/Teacher
Conferences
No School |
Student/Teacher
Conferences
No School |
Staff Development
No School |
Parent Info Session
6:30-7:30pm
Education Minnesota
No School |
Education Minnesota
No School |
| 20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
| |
Parent Info Session
6:30-7:30pm |
Board Meeting |
|
|
| 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
| |
Parent Info Session
6:30-7:30pm |
|
|
|
November 2008
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
|
Report Cards
Come Out
No School
End of 1st Quarter |
Staff Development
No Students |
No School |
No School |
No School |
| 17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
|
Intersession #1 |
Intersession #1 |
Intersession #1
Board Meeting |
Intersession #1 |
Intersession #1 |
| 24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
|
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
December 2008
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
Quarter 2 Begins |
|
|
|
|
| 8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
| |
|
Board Meeting |
|
|
| 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
|
Winter Break Begins
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
| 29 |
30 |
31 |
|
|
|
No School |
No School
|
No School
| |
|
January 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
No School |
No School |
| 5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
|
Observed Holiday |
|
|
|
|
| 26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
|
|
Board Meeting
| |
|
February 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
| |
|
Board Meeting |
|
Report Cards
No School
End of 2nd Quarter |
| 16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
|
Observed Holiday
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
| 23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
|
Intersession #2 |
Intersession #2 |
Intersession #2 |
Intersession #2 |
Intersession #2 |
|
March 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
No School |
No School |
Teacher Planning Day
No School |
Quarter 3 Begins
|
|
| 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
|
|
Board Meeting |
|
|
| 30 |
31 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
April 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| |
|
Conferences
No School |
Conferences
No School |
Observed Holiday
No School |
| 13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
| |
|
Board Meeting |
|
|
| 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
| |
|
Report Cards
No School
End of 3rd Quarter
Board Meeting |
No School |
No School |
| 18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
|
Intersession #3 |
Intersession #3 |
Intersession #3 |
Intersession #3 |
Intersession #3 |
| 25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
|
No School |
No School
|
No School
|
No School |
No School |
June 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
Staff Development
No School |
First Day of Quarter 4 |
|
|
|
| 8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
|
|
Board Meeting |
|
|
| 29 |
30 |
|
|
|
|
No School |
No School
|
| |
|
July 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
No School |
No School |
Observed Holiday
No School |
| 6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| 20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
|
|
|
Board Meeting |
|
|
| 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
|
|
| |
|
August 2009
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
|
|
Board Meeting |
Last Day of School
End of 4th Quarter |
Report Cards
No School |
| 10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
|
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
| 17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
|
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
| 24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
|
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
No School |
|
31 |
|
|
|
|
|
No School |
|
| |
|
|
