Scheduling Committee

Today’s Agenda  Welcome  Roles and Responsibilities  Goals  Timeline  Next Steps

Roles and Responsibilities  Teachers  Represent ALL teachers in your group  Learn as much as you can – review website  Solicit input from your team and bring all ideas to the table.  Make recommendations to the administration based upon teacher input.  Administrators  Help facilitate the process  Make collaborative decisions to create a schedule using teacher input that works for everyone and improves our current

Our Goals  Surface our assumptions about:  How students learn best  Why our current structures exist  What our responsibility should be in helping students prepare for their future  Our fears and our needs  Fairness and equity among content areas and teachers  Creation of schedule and structures that meet “our” needs

Our Optimal Timeline ActivityDate 1 st MeetingNovember 4 th 2 nd MeetingNovember 11 th 3 rd MeetingNovember 18 th 4 th MeetingDecember 2 nd 5 th Meeting (goal is to be our last meeting)December 9 th 6 th Meeting (if Necessary)December 16 th SIGN UP PROCESS Meetings with students1 st week of January Requests made2 nd and 3 rd week of January Catch-Up4 th week of January Tallies and Staffing1 st and 2 nd week of February Master BuiltEnd of March Load and TweakApril Distribution of SchedulesLast week of school

 What do we want for our students?  For their future? How would we describe the ultimate learning environment and conditions?

Surfacing Assumptions What do we believe about how students learn best?

Do we believe this?

What are the structures that make up our schools?  Bell Schedules  Calendar  Subjects  Grade Level Configurations  Buildings / Individual Classrooms  Grading Systems  Teaching Strategies / Methods  What else?

Why do our current structures exist?

 Is the world outside of our schools changing faster than we are?  If so, what does that mean for us? …For our sustainability?

 Do we believe that all of our students are engaged and WANT to come to school?  If not, why not? What can we do to improve this?

What do we think about this and student’s future?

 What is working now that we want to keep? (strengths)

 What is not working that we want to improve? (weaknesses)

 What do we hope to gain? (opportunities)

 What are we afraid of losing? (threats)

 What do we feel we need (or need to do) to help everyone with the transition from the current structure to a new structure?

What is our next step?