For those of you who attended my session at VASCD on Thursday, December 3, 2009.
The topic for this session was “Scheduling and Organizing the Intervention/Enrichment Period for Tiered Instruction in Response to Intervention.”
Here’s the PowerPoint: K-12IE1109.pptx
Here’s several elementary handouts:
IE Options
Thanks to those of you who attended Dr. Canady and my session at the annual conference of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) in Orlando, FL on Monday, March 16, 2009.
As promised, I provide the files used in the session below:
Here’s the PowerPoint in 2003 format: K-12IE.ppt
Here’s the PowerPoint in 2007 format: K-12IE.pptx
Here are the elementary school I/E scheduling options presented in PDF format: Elementary I/E Schedules.
Here is the elementary school inclusion and I/E schedule presented in Excel format: Inclusion I/E Schedule.
Here are the 4-Block middle school I/E scheduling options presented in PDF format: 4-Block I/E Schedules.
Here is the draft Kate Collins I/E schedule presented in PDF format: Kate Collins Draft.
Here are the high school I/E bell schedules presented in Excel format: High School I/E.
During the session I mentioned two schedules that offer interesting ways to provide planning time in elementary and middle schools. Look at the blog entry above about a middle school that has alternating grade level and departmental planning.
Look at the blog entry above about an elementary school that provides an extended planning period of 80 minutes once weekly (in addition to shorter planning periods on other days).
Remember the caveat emphasized in the session: scheduling the I/E period is easy compared to structuring and utilizing the time effectively. We discuss this organization and use of the I/E period in great detail in chapter 4 of our new book Elementary School Scheduling: Enhancing Instruction for Student Achievement.
If you have questions, want to share an idea, or just want to say thanks for the materials let me know by posting a response here at the blog, or by sending a private email to rettigmd@jmu.edu.
Thanks to all of you who attend Dr. Canady and my presentation at ASCD on March 14, 2009 from 12:30-2:30 in Orlando, FL. Here is a link to the handout and the references mentioned at the presentation entitled, “Designing Data-Driven High School Schedules to Reduce Dropout Rates.”
Happy reading.
Mike
Thanks to those of you who attended Dr. Canady and my session at the annual conference of the Virgina Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (VASCD) in Williamsburg, VA on Friday, December 5th.
As promised, I provide the files used in the session below:
Here’s the PowerPoint in 2003 format: K-12IE.ppt
Here’s the PowerPoint in 2007 format: K-12IE.pptx
Here are the elementary school I/E scheduling options presented in PDF format: Elementary I/E Schedules.
Here is the elementary school inclusion and I/E schedule presented in Excel format: Inclusion I/E Schedule.
Here are the 4-Block middle school I/E scheduling options presented in PDF format: 4-Block I/E Schedules.
Here is the draft Kate Collins I/E schedule presented in PDF format: Kate Collins Draft.
Here are the high school I/E bell schedules presented in Excel format: High School I/E.
During the session I mentioned two schedules that offer interesting ways to provide planning time in elementary and middle schools. Look at the blog entry above about a middle school that has alternating grade level and departmental planning Faiss Middle School.
Look at the blog entry above about an elementary school that provides an extended planning period of 80 minutes once weekly (in addition to shorter planning periods on other days) Henry Clay Elementary School.
Remember the caveat emphasized in the session: scheduling the I/E period is easy compared to structuring and utilizing the time effectively. We discuss this organization and use of the I/E period in great detail in chapter 4 of our new book Elementary School Scheduling: Enhancing Instruction for Student Achievement.
If you have questions, want to share an idea, or just want to say thanks for the materials let me know by posting a response here at the blog, or by sending a private email to rettigmd@jmu.edu.
During the spring of 2007 I had the pleasure of working with Joy Lea, principal of the new Faiss Middle School in the Clark County Schools (Las Vegas) in Nevada. Together we adapted what we call the “Four-Block” schedule for her school staffing and population (See chapter 4 of our book “Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools” for a detailed discussion of this schedule). The schedule includes four 80-minute instructional blocks, a 40-minute Intervention/Enrichment period and time for lunch. Students receive an 80-minute instructional block of language arts and an 80-minute block of mathematics daily. In addition students are taught social studies and science every other day for 80 minutes and have a fourth block for elective classes and physical education. Teachers instruct three 80-minute blocks daily and the 40-minute I/E period. 80 minutes was reserved for teachers’ team and individual planning.
This schedule provides a minimum of 66 2/3 % of instructional time in core classes. If you think of the schedule as a 9-period schedule: two daily periods are allocated to LA, two to math, one to social studies, one to science, two to encore classes and one (the I/E) can be either core or enrichment. Thus all students receive a minimum of 2/3 of their time in core instruction (6 of 9 periods), and some students receive more core instruction (7 of 9) because for them the I/E period is devoted to core instruction as well.
During the 40-minute Intervention/Enrichment period (they called it “E-Time”) students were grouped based upon formative assessment data to receive instructional interventions in language arts or mathematics or to receive enrichment activities. Groupings were reconfigured every two-three weeks as newer performance data became available.
By all accounts the school was very successful; they achieved Adequate Yearly Progress in all areas but the Special Education sub-group in mathematics. See attached state report. Joy also compiled other data to share with interested parties.Faiss Report.
This year several improvements have been made to the schedule that are worth sharing with others. Last year common grade level planning time occurred for all grade levels every day. This year Joy Lea and her assistant principal, David Osterhuber, revised the planning schedule so that on “B” days teachers plan together as a grade level and on “A” days teachers plan together in cross-grade-level departments. This should provide an excellent opportunity for cross-grade level discipline-based articulation. A side benefit of this plan is the possibility of creating multi-grade level band and choir classes on the the departmental planning day. Links to the schedule and school website follow.
Faiss MS Preparation and Collaboration Schedule
What do you think?
Mike