2. Stage 3: Building the Master Schedule
Phases in the Master Building Process
• Implementing Common Planning Time for Pathway/Academy/SLC
Teaching Teams
• Examining Cohort/Team Size & Structure for Developing Pure Cohorts of
Pathway Students
• Determining & Utilizing an Order for Section/Cohort/Team Placement
• Utilizing the Course Conflict Matrix
• Assuring & Maintaining Accurate Section Counts
• Determining Teacher Assignments
• Balancing Seats
• Determining Room Assignments
• Inputting Student Information System Data
• Conducting Simulation Runs, Analyzing Results and Making Master
Schedule Revisions
• Finalizing the Master Schedule
3. Implementing Common Planning Time for
Pathway/Academy/SLC Teaching Teams
• Cornerstone of a successful SLC/Linked
Learning/Academy Cohort/Team
• Determining the total number of teacher
planning times per period for a school
• Multiple lunch periods and planning time
• Bell schedule effect on common planning time
4. Examining Cohort/Team Size and Structure
for Developing Pure Cohorts of Pathway
Students
• Effect of size and structure on establishing purity
• Student progressions through cohort and non-
cohort classes
• Teaching part-time in a cohort/team
• Teaching full-time in a cohort/team
5. Determining and Utilizing an Order for
Section/Cohort/Team Placement
• Compatibility with school priorities
• Mandatory section placements
• Singletons, Doubletons, Tripletons
• Inclusion of cohort/teams – a shift in
conventional wisdom placement order
• Adding students taking designated groups of
classes to the mix
• Visible representations of the master schedule
6. Utilizing the Course Conflict Matrix
• Report derived from student course requests
• Printed from Student Information System
• A course by course listing showing the number of
students who requested a specific course along
with all other courses that were requested by
these same students
• Conflict counting
• Other uses for student course request data
7. Assuring and Maintaining Accurate
Section Counts
• Determining section allocation per course
• Keeping track of section count
• Keeping track of staffing allocation
8. Determining Teacher Assignments
• More than just credentials and
authorizations
• Sharing the wealth of courses
• Forming a team of teachers for a
pathway/cohort of students
• Balancing teacher loads
• Balancing teacher course progressions
9. Balancing Seats
• Seat counts by grade level and by period
• Student Information System seat counts
• School site seat counts
• Adjusting sections to balance seats
10. Determining Room Assignments
• If possible, avoid room sharing
• Methods to limit room changes if sharing
• Assigning rooms to cohorts
• Room assignments in schools with multiple
lunch periods
• Keeping track of room assignments
11. Inputting Student Information System Data
• Learning to use your Student Information
System
• The Builder
• Tagging students, sections, and courses
• Student Information System Team/Cohort
scheduling functions
• Creating unique courses
• Use of data from the Student Information
System
• Rolling over a schedule
12. Conducting Simulation Runs, Analyzing
Results and Making Master Schedule
Revisions
• Simulation (SIM) Run student scheduled
percentages
• Improving student scheduled percentages
• Analyzing SIM Run results reports
• Conducting multiple SIM Runs
• Keeping track of master schedule changes
• Saving SIM Run results
13. Finalizing the Master Schedule
• Locking in the Master Schedule
• The master schedule notebook
• Upcoming Stage 4 Tasks:
• Disseminating teacher schedules
• Disseminating student schedules
