SCC calendar lock-in date, 2000-2001

Calendar synchronization of the
Standard Celeration Chart for the
2000-2001 academic year

by Malcolm Neely, Ph.D.

Posted on the SC List 9/9/2000

Mal here,
I see I'm a bit late, but hopefully not too late to remind/inform the North American list members (and its newbies) of the calendar lock-in date for the 2000 to 2001 academic year.

The chart-convention is that the first chart of the academic year starts on the Sunday of the week of Labor Day.

This year the first chart begins (Sunday) 3 SEP 00; Fourth Week 1 OCT 00; Eighth Week 29 OCT 00; Twelfth Week 26 NOV 00; Sixteenth Week 24 DEC 00; and the Twentieth Week 21 JAN 01.

The second chart begins the same as the first chart ends--21 JAN 01. The second chart's Fourth Week is 18 FEB 01; Eighth Week 18 MAR 01; Twelfth Week 15 Apr 01; Sixteenth Week 13 MAY 01; and Twentieth Week 10 JUN 01.

And 10 JUN 01 begins the summer chart.

I know the chart lock-in dates do not accommodate August school starts--nor late June or July school adjournments--but so it goes with our diversity.

The lock-in date standardization was set to facilitate the ease of across-chart comparisons and discovery, not only with your classroom, but within your school, district, county, state, or other geographical regions.

Overlapping one chart over another and comparing frequencies, celerations, bounce, change lines, outliers, weekday patterns, period patterns, etc. is easier with a standard lock-in date. A different start-date forces one to slide charts left or right for date alignment--difficult with two charts--very difficult in comparing multiple charts.

Lock-in dates allow one to refer to "chart week 1, 2,...14, 16" or saying, "Find Wednesday of chart week ten." That is much easier than saying "Find 8 Nov" and every chart you might be monitoring starts with a different date.

And know that if you want to be nonconventional, or even unconventional, you will still be loved and supported by "conventionalists" -- or at least, should be.