Teachers today are focusing on impacting the education of every
child instead of teaching to the class as a whole. To do that
effectively, according to a large number of educators, the
teachers can’t work in isolation, but must communicate and
combine their skills and efforts. James Flynn, superintendent of
Simpson County Schools, was quoted in the Kentucky Schools
Advocate, “We have to deliver instruction very differently to
meet children’s needs in very different ways. To do that with
any kind of proficiency and effectiveness is going to take time
and it can’t be one person trying to figure out how to solve it
– we’ve got to collaborate.” With that in mind, LaRue County
Schools’ curriculum coordinating committee will recommend to the
board of education that early release days, in which students
will be released two hours before normal close of the school
day, be built into next year’s calendar. “This is meant as a
time when teachers can work closely together, analyzing data,
and doing other things that will