Whereas: HB2862 permits schools to utilize flexibility in tracking and reporting attendance beyond traditional seat time for up to 40% of the total instructional time the school provides. "In designing attendance tracking procedures, districts and charters should consider which activities best represent student participation/engagement in remote instruction, independent learning, mastery-based learning, or project-based learning," per the ADE guidance document provided in July of 2021, and

Whereas: Empower College Prep adopted an Instructional Time Model that was implemented without incident in FY23, and 

Whereas: Empower College Prep seeks to maintain the same Instructional Time Model instituted in FY23.

Therefore, let it be resolved that:

Empower College Prep's Instructional Time Model for students learning outside of the brick and mortar campus is designed to mirror the model in place at the brick and mortar campus. All students will be assigned 4 periods each day. Just as students on the campus are marked as present in each period, students learning remotely will be marked present based on their observable participation in each of their courses. This may be observed through logs provided by the Learning Management System, live screen monitoring through Go Guardian, and/or in-person observations by the Learning Guide on the Extended Campus.