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Scheduling Committee 11.4.11. Today’s Agenda  Welcome  Roles and Responsibilities  Goals  Timeline  Next Steps.

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1 Scheduling Committee 11.4.11

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

3 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

4 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

5 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

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

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

8 Do we believe this?

9 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?

10 Why do our current structures exist?

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

12  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?

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

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

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

16  What do we hope to gain? (opportunities)

17  What are we afraid of losing? (threats)

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

19 What is our next step?


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