Breakout Session 1.4: Leveraging Your Instructional Calendar to Maximize Student Performance in High-Needs Schools
Being overwhelmed is not a foreign state of being when engaging in school improvement work. Students are overwhelmed with the frequent assessment systems implemented to gauge student learning.
Teachers are overwhelmed with the constantly moving target of high quality instruction and other
expectations. Campus leaders are overwhelmed from having to jump start and communicate all these ideas, and from the stress of having to do so within the time frame of the traditional school calendar. We start school based on this calendar and organize our day-to-day operations according to this calendar.
Most importantly, we lead instruction with this calendar, but should we? During our presentation, we will discuss how you can leverage time in your favor, while maximizing student performance and increasing teacher quality using an embedded, instructional calendar instead of the traditional school calendar!
We'll discuss the difference between the two calendars and how each calendar contributes to the success of the campus instructional program.