The group met in mid-October to discuss their impressions and observations regarding the impact on students and learning, changes in teaching behavior, and other pertinent issues. Flexibility for both students and staff was mentioned by a number of teachers. There's flexibility for students to come in early and take tests, get academic help, study, and so on. Staff can have morning meetings rather than after school.
Guest speakers are more likely to come to a first hour class with the later start time.
Many teachers commented that there's now time in the mornings to conduct meetings with parents, which wasn't the case in previous years. In general, teachers come at the same time in the morning as they did in previous years, but this year they have time to process and prepare new and timely information to incorporate in teaching. I teach a lot of business courses and I use daily news, so I have time to go over some newspapers, jump on the Internet, and find out what some of the top topics are for the day. This notion was reiterated by a number of faculty who said most of them come to school at the same time, but stay longer in the afternoon. A few of them mentioned that they miss the late afternoon break between school and dinner to wind down, exercise, or run errands.