Required Instructional Minutes

Instructional schedules will be intentionally designed to ensure teacher interaction with students, teacher availability to support students, student access to instructional support from teachers when needed including direct instruction, engagement with academic material on a daily basis, student IEP and Section 504 plans are followed regardless of learning environment to provide FAPE, and that engagement is equivalent to direct content work that a student would be engaged in over a normal school year. Instructional schedules are also intentionally designed to address the variances between different grade spans of students.

Texas Education Agency - Required minutes for direct work in academic content.