It's time once again for our calendar survey!

If you're new to Brave Nation, then here's a quick explanation on how the school calendar development process goes.

1. The calendar committee meets in September and creates multiple options for some of our student, staff, and parent stakeholder groups to consider.
    
2. After collecting input from those groups across October and November, we narrow down those multiple options (five this year) to two finalists.
    
3. We then ask all students 5th grade through 11th grade, all parents/guardians, and all staff to vote on the two final calendar options, and take that data to the Community ISD Board of Trustees in January.
    
4. The Board will consider the data from all of our stakeholders and this survey, and then approve a calendar at the January 13, 2025 meeting that will be available for students, parents, and staff to download that evening. This final calendar will show only the schedule for students - we now create separate staff calendars for each of our different employee groups - teachers, child nutrition, district staff, etc.

Unfortunately both of our finalists see some small changes from this year's calendar, as the State of Texas has slightly changed how our required 75,600 minutes of instruction are calculated. For four-day instructional districts only, we can now no longer count teacher professional development days towards that 75,600 minutes. Previously all school districts were allowed to file up to five days (2,100 minutes) of professional development as instructional time. Five-day school districts are still allowed to do so.

With that restriction in mind, we took two approaches with these final options.

1) Add days to the calendar

2) Add minutes to the day

While both calendars have compromises, these two stood out as the most acceptable of our five initial choices when considered by all stakeholder groups.

Please take a moment to cast your vote for your favorite calendar. No one is allowed to vote more than once, and the surveys are broken out by students (5th-11th only), parents, and staff. Staff that are also parents of CISD students can vote in both groups. Votes can be cast until January 6, 2025.

You can click on the image of either calendar to download a PDF version.