Elliot Y Merenbloom, Barbara A Kalina

The Educational Leader's Guide for School Scheduling

Strategies Addressing Grades K-12

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This essential resource provides strategies for the effective and equitable distribution of available FTEs throughout the district, while helping you work through the many critical questions and decisions involved in the scheduling process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781138207424
• ISBN-10: 113820742X
• Artikelnr.: 48012722

Autorenporträt

Elliot Y. Merenbloom has been an educational consultant for 24 years. He has served as a classroom teacher, school counselor, assistant principal, principal, director of middle school instruction, and area director in Baltimore County, Maryland. Barbara A. Kalina has been an educational consultant for over 20 years. She has served as a teacher at Rotolo Middle School and an adjunct professor at Benedictine University and National Louis University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Tables
Meet the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgment
eResources
1. Schedules: Achieving Efficiency and Equity
An Efficient Schedule Defined
An Equitable Schedule Defined
Roles of Stakeholders
Achieving Flexibility Within Structure
Recap
Points to Consider
2. Core Elements in the Development of a School Schedule:
District and School Perspectives
Mission/Vision
Delivering the Curriculum
Diverse Populations
Response to Intervention
Organizational Frameworks: Primary and Inserts
Teachers' Contracts
Small Learning Communities
Flexibility
Least Restrictive Environment
Financial Resources
Credit Recovery
Accommodating CTE and Other Alternatives
Schedule Implementation
Recap
Points to Consider
3. Managerial Strategies
Tally
Department Summary
FTE Distribution Chart
Teacher Assignment Chart
Conflict Matrix
Blueprint
Recap
Points to Consider
4. Organizational Frameworks
Primary
Inserts
Recap
Points to Consider
5. Steps in Building a K-5 or K-6 Schedule
Step 1: Review, Revise, or Create a Mission/Vision Statement
Step 2: Gain Faculty Understanding and Support
Step 3: Provide for the Three Tiers of RtI
Step 4: Create Modular Grid for Teaching Sections
Step 5: Confirm FTE, Sections, Common Plan Periods
Step 6: Confirm the Curriculum Chart
Step 7: Project Number of Specials Teachers
Step 8: Place Specials, Lunch, and Intervention on the Grid
Step 9: Place Core Classes on the Grid
Step 10: Indicate ELL and Special Education Teachers
Step 11: Provide Common Planning Time for Specials Teachers and
Intervention Team
Step 12: Establish Rotation for Specials
Step 13: Finalize FTE
Step 14: Professional Development
Recap
Points to Consider
6. Steps in Building a K-8 Schedule
Step 1: Review, Revise, or Create a Mission/Vision Statement
Step 2: Gain Faculty Understanding and Support
Step 3: Provide for the Three Tiers of RtI
Step 4: Create a Modular Grid for Teaching Sections
Step 5: Confirm Number of Modules Needed for Teaching Sections and Common
Planning Periods
Step 6: Create or Review the Curriculum Chart K-4 or K-5
Step 7: Establish Program of Studies for Grades 5-8 or 6-8
Step 8: Project Number of Specials Teachers
Step 9: Place Specials or Exploratory/Elective Courses, Lunch, and
Intervention Periods on Grid
Step 10: Place Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social
Studies on the Grid
Step 11: Indicate ELL and Special Education Placement on Grid
Step 12: Provide Common Planning Time Opportunities for Specials,
Exploratory/Elective and Intervention Team
Step 13: Establish Rotations for Specials or Exploratory/Elective Subjects
Step 14: Finalize FTE numbers
Step 15. Plan Professional Development
Recap
Points to Consider
7. Steps in Building a Middle School Schedule
Step 1: Review, Revise, or Create a Mission/Vision Statement
Step 2: Gain Faculty Understanding and Support
Step 3: Provide for RtI
Step 4: Choose Primary Framework and Appropriate Inserts
Step 5: Create Bell and Lunch Schedule
Step 6: Formulate the Core Program of Studies
Step 7: Formulate the Exploratory/Elective Program of Studies
Step 8: Project Enrollment
Step 9: Decide Team Composition
Step 10: Develop a Blueprint
Step 11: Assemble the Grid of Teachers' Assignments
Step 12: Implement Professional Development
Recap
Points to Consider
8. Steps in Building a High School Schedule
Step 1: Review, Revise, or Create a Mission/Vision Statement
Step 2: Gain Faculty Understanding and Support
Step 3: Provide for the Three Tiers of RtI
Step 4: Choose Primary Framework and Inserts
Step 5: Create Bell and Lunch Schedule
Step 6: Decisions on Composition of Houses, Magnets, and Academies
Step 7: Review and/or Update Curriculum Handbook for Students and Parents
Step 8: Assemble Registration Materials and Coordinate Course Selection
Process
Step 9: Establish Student Data Base
Step 10: Create Department Summaries
Step 11: Create the FTE Distribution Table
Step 12: Create Teacher Assignment Chart
Step 13: List Singletons and Doubletons
Step 14: Formulate a Conflict Matrix for Each Singleton and Doubleton
Course
Step 15: Create a Blueprint for Small Learning Communities
Step 16: Place Singletons and Doubletons on the Master Schedule by Teacher
and Period
Step 17: Enter Remainder of Courses
Step 18: Initial and Subsequent Computer Runs
Step 19: Implement Professional Development
Recap
Points to Consider
9. Aspects of Schedule Implementation
Recap
Points to Consider