Learn how to unlock the constraints of traditional bell schedules and implement hybrid models that allow for flexible, performance driven instruction. This session will cover improved master schedule procedures and timelines, implementation of hybrid schedules to provide curricular specific teaching periods, implementation of procedures to complete cohort schedules, creation of common planning times for educators, efficient use of instructional facilities, and flexible schedules to allow for direct instruction to student groups based upon formative assessment data

1. SLC Master Schedule Implementation “From Paper to Practice” Mike Neubig, President Mike@capture-education.com

3. Presentation Templates

4. ScheduleSMART Master Schedule Samplehttp://www.capture-education.com/index.cfm?content=6&Menu=5

5. How to create: Academic Teams Smaller Learning Communities Career Academies

6. Develop vertical course sequences Align courses and vertical sequences Prescribe and reduce course offerings to allow common planning time for teachers Strategies used to implement successful structures to:

7. Multiple levels of core courses Lack of vertical course sequences Assigning teachers by department and choice first SLC Scheduling Issues “Sacred cow” courses maintained for tradition, not as part of vertical sequence Lack of curriculum analysis Inability to use SIS for cohort scheduling and a process to maintain purity

9. Philosophy

11. De-Tracking SLC’s are designed to provide equal opportunity within each community by providing less segmentation and more flexibility to move between course levels.

13. Grades

14. Attendance/discipline

15. Test scoresTo be successful, this system must be changed to one for heterogeneous grouping. (Equity)

19. should be above 80% in grades 10-12Teacher Purity Teachers in each SLC should teach the majority of their courses within the SLC and have 3 hours per week of common planning time.

20. Consider these 9th grade course options

21. Sample schedule of too many course levels and assigning teachers to limited preps

22. vs. these

23. Sample schedule for a school who has “prescribed and reduced” and assigned teachers preps for purity

24. Biology + Honors Chemistry + Honors Ecology + Honors Consider these 11-12 grade science courses Geology + Honors Physics + Honors AP Biology AP Physics

26. AP OCCURS AS “GLOBAL” CLASS ACROSS ALL SLC’SNote: Biology is not offered as a repeat. Must take in summer school, online, or in alternative setting.

30. Vertical Course Sequencing (Pathways) reflecting the ADDITION of core courses working with CTE, with common planning time

31. Deciding upon the minimum half day focus for purity, at each grade level, per SLC

32. Adjusting the registration sheets to reflect the SLCs

33. Gathering course requests by SLC, not in a conglomerate number

35. Nashville, TN

36. Albuquerque, NM

38. Sample ScheduleSMART Master

39. Better safety nets for students / adult connections Equal opportunity for advance course work Teachers working together around student needs Result of Smaller Learning Environment Relevance to curriculum by addition of interest courses Streamlined communication between teachers, parents, and administration Access to change instruction within each community

40. Other Resources Scheduling Guide by Mike Neubig The Practitioner’s Guide to Scheduling SLC’s and Career Academies; Equity in Action $39.95 each DVD Master Scheduling For Academic Teams, Small Learning Communities and Career Academies $169 each DVD Workbook: $19.99 each ScheduleSMART Automated Schedule Builder Contact us to order: cindy@capture-education.com www.capture-education.com