K-8 Schedule Examples

Master Schedule Examples
Considerations for Scheduling
District Level
—  Communication of expectations and accountability
for intervention time within the school day
—  Determine acceptable models for scheduling of
intervention time K-12
—  Determine dissemination points
—  Build capacity of staff through professional
development
—  Determine method of accountability
—  MTSS plans
—  Observations
—  Principal meeting reports
Considerations for Scheduling
Building-Level
—  Creating common time for intervention/ re-teach/
enrich to allow for maximum staff availability- may
require creativity
—  Consider where time can be created:
—  Shave time off of each period
—  Must consider instructional time requirements
—  Reduce time for lunch
—  Reduce transition times between periods
—  Easier if students clustered in grade-level areas of building
—  Use of A/B schedules
—  Structured active lunch
—  Skinnies
K-8 Schedule Examples
Plantation Key School
—  We do 45 minutes a day. It is scheduled throughout the day
based on grade level scheduling.
—  Model 1: Teachers keep their own students; provide differentiated
activities through centers and computer programs
—  Model 2: Grade levels divide up students based on needs and each
teacher has a group.
—  Model 3: Combination specials/I.E. Students are in an
intervention program which is flexible with specials.
—  Middle School: 20 minutes of every 75 period is designated IE
time. Teachers provide IE within the middle school schedule. We keep changing the “look” to meet more students’ needs. It is
always morphing into something else……
K-8 Schedule Examples
Horace O’Bryant Middle School
—  45 minutes at the end of each day- scheduled as a 6th period:
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Reading and Math Lab
Great Books
Jr. Great Books
STEM
—  In order to offer a regular course, such as Great Books, it has to
be at least 45 minutes
—  We also teach Second Step each week on Tuesdays or do
school activities during this time
—  The real issue is next year we have to use a regular course
code. We have kids who are level 2 and do not directly qualify
for Reading or Math lab. So, we’ve used exploratory wheel for
everything, including STEM. K-8 Schedule Examples
Key Largo
—  We use Model 2 for elementary —  The groups are fluid across grade level teachers and change based
on how the student is doing and the skill assessed. —  40 minutes long
—  In middle school
—  2 periods of Intensive math and 2 of intensive reading
—  Students who don’t need one of those choose an elective
—  60 minutes long
K-8 Schedule Examples
Sugarloaf School
—  We use a 35 minute intervention period
—  at the end of our third period class —  Students who are doing poorly are grouped in academic support
classes and the other students do enrichment —  We created this time in our day by shaving 3 minutes off each class
and cutting time off of our homeroom —  This was done the year prior during our master scheduling window.