In my previous job the operations people drove what the company would do. So if we thought a store needed to be designed a certain way to insure the best service for the customer, store construction would figure out how to design the store in that matter. Never would store construction think about telling us how they wanted to design the store.
In education it seems that the schedule is now driving the education process. We are not really arguing what is better for students 46 minutes or 90 minute period but rather what gets is the least costly. Even when we are thinking about which type of block schedule we are going to implement, the main focus seems to be on how can we schedule that in our school.
Again, this is a crazy thought but I would try to figure out what meets the students needs and then tell the scheduler to make it happen. That is going on in one school in the county where the principal believes that instruction should be the driving force.
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