Announcing Library Of School Schedules

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

For the past two years we have been indexing and uploading schedules created jointly by School Scheduling Associates and schools around the nation.  The Library now includes over 400 elementary school schedules and approximately 30 secondary school schedules. Schedules are indexed by a variety of parameters and this database may ...

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Handouts from 2009 ASCD Presentation “Scheduling and Organizing the Data-Driven Intervention/Enrichment Period”

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Thanks to those of you who attended Dr. Canady and my session at the annual conference of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) in Orlando, FL on Monday, March 16, 2009. As promised, I provide the files used in the session below: Here's the PowerPoint in 2003 format: K-12IE.ppt Here's ...

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Scheduling and Organizing the Intervention/Enrichment (I/E) Period

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Thanks to those of you who attended Dr. Canady and my session at the annual conference of the Virgina Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (VASCD) in Williamsburg, VA on Friday, December 5th. As promised, I provide the files used in the session below: Here's the PowerPoint in 2003 format: K-12IE.ppt Here's the ...

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Adding an Extended Planning Block into the Master Schedule for PLC Time

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Increasingly elementary schools across the country are able to construct master schedules with common planning time for teams of teachers (usually grade levels). The purpose for providing common time is to allow teachers to meet collaboratively to discuss instruction, curriculum, student needs, and to plan enrichment and intervention groupings and ...

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Planning Time for Multi-grade Level Teachers

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Many schools have difficulty finding planning time for teachers of self-contained special education classes that include two or more grade levels of students. This problem also occurs when we have combination classes (i.e.) a K-1 class, usually created because there are a few more students in each grade level, ...

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