{"id":7661,"date":"2020-10-15T16:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:20:28","slug":"fall-2020-semester-exams-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/fall-2020-semester-exams-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2020 Semester Exams Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation.jpg\" alt=\"Important Information\" class=\"wp-image-7428\" width=\"440\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation.jpg 1760w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-352x300.jpg 352w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-1536x1309.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-760x648.jpg 760w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-469x400.jpg 469w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-82x70.jpg 82w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-600x511.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/importantinformation-550x469.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After a lengthy discussion with stakeholders, BISD Superintendent Dr. Darrell Brown, and the\u00a0superintendent\u2019s Cabinet approved the recommendation to suspend first semester exams in December 2020. The rationale behind this decision was to recapture valuable instructional time typically spent in review and use that time instead to cover content and skills that students missed due to COVID\u201319\u00a0school closures. Data shows that our students have lost\u00a0valuable instruction, and the gaps in academic performance are real. Thus, this redirection of valuable instructional time is one way to regain lost ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy discussion with stakeholders, BISD Superintendent Dr. Darrell Brown, and the\u00a0superintendent\u2019s Cabinet approved the recommendation to suspend first semester exams in December 2020. The rationale behind this decision was to recapture valuable instructional time typically spent in review and use that time instead to cover content and skills that students missed due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76FL9-1Zz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}