Tutorial schedule will return to North on Sept. 21 after two years without it. Tutorial is a thirty-minute period where students are able to meet with their teachers.

While both North and East have Early Release schedules, Tutorial is unique to North.

“Many years ago, a group of North teachers got together, and they wanted to provide an additional time for students and teachers to get together to do work,” said John Peters, Assistant Principal for College and Career Readiness. “What they did is they created this session that is called Tutorial.”

Tutorial will take place on Wednesdays that are not Early Release. On Tutorial days, North will follow its Tutorial bell schedule where classes will be 43 minutes long instead of the usual 47 minutes long, and tutorial will take place between second and third period. Students can choose to go to one of their teacher’s Tutorial sessions, or they may be assigned by a teacher to go to a certain room. 

“During that Tutorial session you would go to that room and spend time with that teacher,” said Peters. “That could be making up a quiz, catching up on an absence, getting extra help on math or whatever class it might be.”

This year, Tutorial will also offer what Peters calls building level programming. The first example of this will take place on Sept. 21, where all freshmen who are not assigned to a specific class will see a presentation on getting involved at North in the auditorium.

“For this first session it’s going to be the freshmen who we pull out, but for every session we’re going to pull out a different grade level,” said Peters.

Other new options offered at Tutorial will include open space for mental health breaks and physical activity in the wellness department and career speakers in the LRC.

“So each week, we’re going to highlight a different career cluster,” said Peters. “We’re going to have speakers from outside the school come in and talk about their experiences.”

In past years, students had the option to go to a large group study hall in the auditorium during Tutorial; however, this will no longer be the case.

“We found that it wasn’t a productive space; there were so many students in one spot, and there wasn’t much work going on,” said Peters.

Attendance during Tutorial will be done by having students fill out a Google form found on QR codes in the classrooms.

North did not have Tutorial in the 2021-2022 school year due to issues with contact tracing and social distancing during the pandemic. Tutorial was originally going to return to North Sept. 7, but timing issues with implementing changes caused it to be pushed back to Sept. 21.

“We didn’t want to roll it out [Sept. 7] and only have it half-formed or without all of the changes,” said Peters.

Posters will be put up telling students what classrooms each teacher will be in. During a 411 schedule on Sept. 20, students will be shown a video describing options they have during Tutorial.