It's Time for Strategic Scheduling

<p><strong>An accessible guide to creating schedules that amplify school and district priorities support best practices in teaching and learning heighten student engagement and enhance equity.</strong><p>A school's schedule can be as important to education outcomes as its budget or strategic plan. The secret to making the schedule a tool for school improvement is to approach schedule design not as a <em>technical</em> task centered on making everything fit like Tetris blocks but as a <em>strategic</em> one. In this book informed by research and their work with hundreds of schools scheduling experts Nathan Levenson and David James explore how strategic scheduling can turn a good enough schedule into one that supercharges learning and engagement without additional costs or more FTEs.<p>If you are ready to<p><br>* Figure out which schedule type is best for your students and staff;<br>* Disrupt harmful tracking and ensure every student has access to highly skilled teachers and rigorous curriculum;<br>* Deliver optimum hours of core instruction while expanding electives and providing opportunities for student voice and choice;<br>* Precisely match staffing to course enrollment to free up personnel and funds for other purposes<br>* Find time for critical intervention and enrichment blocks; and<br>* Communicate scheduling decisions more effectively to parents families and district leaders<p>... then <em>it's time for strategic scheduling</em>. Offering targeted advice for best-practice scheduling at the elementary middle and high school levels this book will help school and district leaders--and the teachers and students they serve--make the most of every school day and every school year.</p>