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Resource Roundup: Making the Schedule Work for Your School
Posted on May 17, 2011, by All Things PLC Team
This week’s resource roundup focuses on creating a master schedule. For more resources related to your PLC journey, visit our category archive page.
Middle/High School Examples
1. Making Time for Collaboration (PDF) - This reproducible handout shows 7 ways to give teams time for collaboration that do not cost money, do not require a change in bus schedules, and do not significantly impact instructional minutes.
2. Intervention Schedules (PDF) - 8 schools with sample schedules showing how they have created time for intervention.
3. Sample Middle/High Schools:
- Adlai Stevenson High School
- Bernice MacNaughton High School
- Cinco Ranch High School
- Jane Addams High School
- Lakeridge Junior High School
- Albemarle County Public School Division (Monticello High School)
- Sanger Unified School District (Washington Academic Middle School)
- Whittier Union High School District (Whittier High School)
Elementary Examples
4. Highland Elementary, a model PLC school from Maryland, has shared their master schedule on AllThingsPLC, as well as the daily schedule for their intervention team. The implementation of Professional Learning Communities led to great success for Highland, and the school was presented with the US Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award in its fourth year as a PLC.
5. Sample Elementary Schools:
- Anne Fox School
- Boones Mill Elementary School
- Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School
- Enders Salk School District 54
- Graham Road Elementary
- Highland Elementary
- R. H. Dana Elementary
- Chaparral Elementary School
- Stults Road Elementary School
- Willow Grove Kindergarten Center
The PLC evidence of effectiveness page is a great way to find schools (and districts) similar to your own that have successfully become PLCs. You can search by school level, enrollment, and free/reduced lunch rate, and each page has contact information so you can get in touch with those schools directly to get advice or ask questions.
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Thank you for sharing so many examples of how schools are working to intentionally schedule time to address student needs and use your resources fully! Having these samples really helps me to being to generate ideas for my school!
This was very insightful. I like to see that the school where I teach is on the right track and has planned days of intervention well. This school year is the first time they have implemented the intervention days into our schedule and I am excited to see how they effective they will be.
I was very excited to see the intervention model examples because my school is making an attempt at this model starting in September. I will share this blog with my principal because I know he has concerns about how this model can be implemented and if the schedule will work. As a special education teacher I am curious about how I will fit into this new model and how I will be able to provide services to all the students on my caseload as well as other students during the intervention time. It is encouraging to know that other schools are making this work. Thank you for sharing such valuable information.
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