Create strategic secondary schedules that raise achievement, improve equity, and save resources
Due to its complexity, designing secondary schedules often defaults to “the way we’ve always done it” and outdated practices that are not aligned with current district priorities and student needs. This results in less effective schedules with higher costs, inefficient time management, and additional staff requirements to meet legacy instructional goals.
At DMGroup, we assist districts and schools nationwide in analyzing current schedules, staffing, course offerings, and academic programming practices and then work in partnership to create powerful secondary schedules that improve student outcomes.
Strategic school scheduling requires clear goals and priorities that drive how time is allocated in middle school and high school, what courses are offered, and how staffing is assigned.
By setting priorities, managing course offerings precisely and strategically, and maximizing the time of staff and students, your school and district can build high-impact secondary schedules that are aligned with student needs while increasing student learning, ensuring equity, and making the most effective and efficient use of the precious resource of staff and student time.
Through learning about strategic secondary scheduling, the School District of Lancaster (PA) realized how they could better leverage their schedule to deliver more for their high-school students.
Analysis of current secondary scheduling practices and benchmarking against best practices at Columbia Public Schools (MO) provided insights that helped better align schedules with district priorities.
Discover a strategic approach to building secondary schedules that can open the door to higher achievement while better serving the needs of students and staff.
This in-depth professional development program is designed to develop your district team's capacity to plan, build, and implement best-in-class strategic secondary schedules.
Over the course of four months, participating teams learn to design a secondary schedule that is aligned with school and district goals and academic best practices, efficiently leverages staff talents and time, and incorporates student voice and choice. All this can be accomplished without affecting your budget or the length of the school day.
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Our secondary scheduling consulting begins with a qualitative and quantitative opportunity review of current secondary schedules, scheduling practices, and scheduling processes. We offer recommendations for scheduling alternatives, help establish clear priorities for school schedules, and provide district and school leaders with a structured approach to schedule creation. We facilitate change management processes to help build buy-in for recommended changes.
We share our Secondary Scheduling framework and approach and highlight some key tips to help you build strategic, impactful schedules.
We explore two approaches for integrating SEL into student learning at the secondary level.
Make sure to consider these two key practices in the initial planning phase of creating secondary schedules.
