1. Stage 3: Building the Master Schedule

2. 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