How To Build The Master Schedule In 10 Easy Steps

Offers a ten-step approach to schedule development and curriculum planning in secondary schools; and includes exercises, worksheets, related anecdotes, and other tools.

With over 150 sample schedules, this book shows how scheduling strategies can enhance your school's capacity to offer exploratory courses, interdisciplinary teaching teams, teacher-based guidance programs, and other programs and practices which are responsive to the needs of early adolescents.

Sam Brooks, a young superintendent with ProCon Builders, has been given responsibility for the largest and most complicated project of his career. He struggles with all of the common difficulties in construction -- lack of communication, coordination issues, and other kinds of wasteful occurrences that rob his project of time and money, while leaving him and his team frustrated and overworked. Luckily, his friend, mentor, and co-worker, Alan Phillips, brings the benefit of his experience and his knowledge of Lean Construction tools and processes to help Sam learn valuable skills for improving the operation of his project. Together, Sam and Alan discuss the merits and explore the practical applications of: Daily Huddles Visual Communication The "Eight Wastes" Managing Constraints Pull Planning The Last Planner System(TM) Percent Plan Complete

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 -- 9. Aspects of Schedule Implementation

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