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Verona officials unveil proposed HB Whitehorn schedule to add daily instructional minutes
Summary
HB Whitehorn principal Dave Galperczyk presented a proposed 2025–26 schedule that would move the middle-school model from seven 45‑minute periods to six 55‑minute periods, shifting start time 10 minutes earlier and reallocating time to boost literacy and math instruction.
HB Whitehorn Principal Dave Galperczyk told the Verona Board of Education on Jan. 21 that the district is proposing a new schedule for grades 5–8 that he said would increase instructional time without adding staff. "We're going from a 7‑class, 45‑minute day to 6 classes at 55 minutes," Galperczyk said, describing the change as about "10 minutes of increase in direct instruction" for every class each day.
The proposed model would start homeroom at 8:20 a.m., 10 minutes earlier than the current 8:30 a.m. schedule, and maintain a similar dismissal time. Galperczyk said the plan includes a rotating six‑day cycle so each class appears at different times throughout the rotation, a design intended to prevent a single subject always falling at a student's least-alert time of day.
A major element of the proposal is a new fifth‑grade team model. Galperczyk said fifth grade will use…
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