This week I travelled through Wisconsin and Colorado visiting some American high schools looking for inspiration on the scheduling question. We first turned our attention to flex-mod scheduling, which is run at several public schools in Wisconsin. Wasau West High,…
Our Grade 9 conference groups have been preparing for our Dia de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) celebrations for a couple weeks. This traditional Mexican holiday celebrates and remembers the lives of deceased family and friends, and is often…
The alternative scheduling PLC has been forging forward on our project to find a schedule that better fits ASFM’s needs. Last time I wrote, we were evaluating teacher survey data to determine the top needs of our school’s schedule. Today,…
Last year I wrote about a jigsaw group activity that I did with my Grade 11 class. I tuned it up this year–gave the expert groups a bit more time and built in time for both expert and learning groups…
Yesterday night, poet Neil Hilborn visited ASFM for a poetry workshop with our students and an extraordinary performance in our Black Box theatre. I was lucky enough to catch the show, and it seemed like an amazing experience for the…
I have been working over the last month with a professional learning community (PLC) to research potential scheduling models for our school. We figure the best way to do this is to ask the teachers what they need in a…