Archive for the ‘Central Office’ Category
Friday, August 29th, 2008
During the spring of 2007 I had the pleasure of working with Joy Lea, principal of the new Faiss Middle School in the Clark County Schools (Las Vegas) in Nevada. Together we adapted what we call the "Four-Block" schedule for her school staffing and population (See chapter 4 of our ...
Posted in Central Office, Middle School | 27 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Central Office, Elementary | 2 Comments »
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, ...
Posted in Central Office, Elementary | 3 Comments »
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
I met with Ashley Cramp (ACramp@mail.manassas.k12.va.us), principal at Baldwin Elementary School in Manassas, VA on Monday to review her schedule and prepare part of the Educational Program Specifications for the new building they are planning. Last year we designed a new schedule that really focused on literacy instruction. The ...
Posted in Central Office, Elementary | 7 Comments »
