In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District rethought and adjusted scheduling to support deeper engagement with cohorts of students. The process helped students and teachers dive deeper into content and focus in various areas of specialty.
Sample schedules for Kindergarten – 8th grade that include walking time for ELA and math.
This document shows a basic remote/hybrid schedule that illustrates the variance of activity and subjects students are engaging with throughout the day as a second grader.
This planning document shows how a second-grade educator structures her full day of hybrid learning instruction and builds in time for virtual rotations and/or centers that both in-person and remote learners can engage with. This document helps her and her team teachers to plan collaboratively and share resources and strategies throughout the week.
This video by Dallas ISD shares specific ways to communicate the plan with students during simultaneous learning. In addition to the video, there are accompanying slides.
This example schedule, or daily roadmap, is a fun way for students to know what to do throughout the day while also having all of their links and resources organized in one place. This is especially important for younger students to help them navigate remote and hybrid learning.
An infographic highlighting various ways to use the school schedule flexibly to create more opportunities for personalized learning.
Flex time periods offer students some degree of flexibility to follow their own interests and manage their own learning time, providing as much flexibility as the school structure and culture can support.
Unlocking Time is a national project that empowers K12 school leaders to adopt new time strategies that fuel student-centered learning. The project will gain new insights on how U.S. schools structure their time, provide a rich set of resources to help K12 school leaders align time and resources with their values, and provision administrators from eligible high-need schools with new master scheduling tools and services to implement new time-based strategies.
Schools around the country have successfully personalized their students’ learning by adding a flex block to their schedule. In what specific ways have students benefited? This video will explore five reasons – from real schools and educators – why you should consider adding a flex block to your schedule.
