The Majority's Choice

With all of the feedback and voting it seems that the clear choice is the modified class schedule with rotating blocks.  The blocks rotate in the same order that they do this year.  This schedule will be presented to Steven and Marc Ott for final approval.

Two Options

 Here are the two proposed schedules for next year.  Steve Dexter, Marc Ott, and myself met on 9.5.2011 and approved either of these two options as a possible schedule for next year.  One model is a pure block schedule and the other is essentially our schedule this year with time built in for an ATLAS meeting.  Since we are becoming a one to one school, it is essential to have time to collaborate in order to successfully implement this program. 

We want to base the choice on faculty feedback since they are the ones who will be working in this new timetable.  Please make any comments to this blog.  To make a comment click on the comment link next to posted by Paul Fomalont on the bottom of this post.  If you make a comment you have to select a profile.  You can use your log in for your gmail account or if you don't have one use anonymous but sign your name on the actual comment so everyone knows who it is from (unless you really want to be anonymous.)  We are using the blog so you can view other people's comments and questions so the forum is more open. 

There is also a place to vote if you feel inclined.  Since this blog is an open forum there is no restriction on the number of times anyone can vote.  Therefore please just vote once.  Along with each schedule is a list of pros and cons.  Whatever schedule that we choose there will likely still have to be small changes but overall they should look like the ones proposed below. 

Option 1

The first schedule is a pure block model.  This means each class meets for 95 minutes 3 times one week and 2 times the next.  In this model there is a 2.5 minute loss of instructional time per class per week.

• Pros: Schedule gives nice blocks of time to meet and collaborate, consistent schedule, students and teachers only have to prepare for three or four classes a day
• Cons: Less curriculum since in a double block you cannot cover as much content as a two singles, classes meet less frequently

Option 2
This proposal keeps the same framework we have now but takes 5 minutes off each long block to give us some extra time to meet.

• Pros: Schedule basically remains the same allowing year to year consistency for teachers and students, both short classes and long blocks in a week, classes always meet 4 times a week.
• Cons: Some tight transitions (15 min travel) to meetings in the afternoons, hard for traveling teachers between campuses