1. Brainstorming Scheduling Issues
March 20, 2014

2. We surveyed schools with the following questions.
What are the priorities when creating a schedule?
2. How is your schedule aligned with the recommended subject time allotments?
3. Who is responsible for creating the schedule? Who is accountable for ensuring that the schedules are adhered to?
. Do students have access to uninterrupted blocks of instructional time to receive in-depth connected instruction?
5. Define your scheduling tights.
What is the procedure for instruction when there is a special event?
What are your expectations for time allotted for transitions within the classroom and moving around the building?
8. Is there a “team time” at your school? If so, how many days of the week?
Are schedules visible or posted in classrooms?
10. How are your intervention/enhancement teachers delivering their services? In-class and/or pull-out? How are decisions made to delivery approach?

3. Making Every Minute Count
Refer to Policy Brief
Making Every Minute Count

5. Quality Time Analysis Tool Results from an Elementary School
Reduce passing time to 3 min. between classes = added 1,800 minutes per year back into instruction

6. Quality Time Analysis Tool Results from an Elementary School
When lunch was first: younger students spent 7 minutes washing hands
When recess first: washing hands fell between recess and lunch

7. Quality Time Analysis Tool Results from an Elementary School
Outcome: Gained 21 hours of lost instructional time
Combine lunch and recess together, rotate subjects before and after

9. Yates Mill Schedule

10. Making Every Minute Count
How to change the culture to be about every minute counts. When leaders in a building are talking about every minute counts, the culture becomes about the importance of instructional time.
Support new/less experienced teachers and staff in using time effectively.
What is your next step?
If you are not there yet with time allotments, that can be a place to start
If you have the allotted time, but don’t know if teachers are adhering to the instructional schedule
Teachers on a grade level all have their own individual schedule when they teach a subject, start there
Making Every Minute Count