In this offering for K-12 site leaders, we will broaden the idea of scheduling to examine the way that inequity often seeps into the various structures, decisions, and programs that determine what, when, and with whom students engage in school activities. Leaders will engage in an equity audit of their community in order to understand ways to reimagine scheduling decisions that lead to unintended outcomes; they will pinpoint hidden inequities, and then begin to address those findings. We will touch on various scheduling-related topics, including building a strong scheduling team, having hard conversations with stakeholders, and putting in place an iterative process to help ensure that scheduling decisions are strongly rooted in equitable outcomes for all students looking forward to future years.
Session Content
Session will consist of 12 total hours of synchronous hybrid meeting times.
Participants will engage in the following equity topics:
- Engage in an equity audit of their community in order to understand ways to reimagine scheduling decisions that lead to unintended outcomes;
- Pinpoint hidden inequities and begin to address their findings;
- Discuss building strong scheduling teams and how to have hard discussions with take holders;
- Put into place interative processes to help ensure that scheduling decisions are strongly rooted in equitable outcomes for all students looking forward to future years
Who Should Participate?
We define small schools as sites who serve 1,200 students or less.
This offering is geared towards K-12 site leaders in small schools who are responsible for any sort of scheduling at their sites, or who want to learn and think deeply about the ways that scheduling can be used as an equity tool.
Facilitators
Erin Schweng, Professional Development Coordinator and Leadership Coach, Leadership Programs. Erin designs and implements professional learning for teachers and leaders and coaches several leaders each year. Ms. Schweng worked in K-12 public education for 22 years as classroom teacher, instructional coach, as well as a district data and assessment department. Most recently, she spent six years as an administrator (Assistant Principal and Principal) of a very diverse comprehensive high school with 3100+ students and over 200 staff. As a high school leader, she supervised the school’s counseling cohort of eight academic counselors, as well as the entire scheduling process from beginning to end each year. Ms. Schweng is thus extensively familiar with course creation and approval processes, master scheduling, including scheduling academy structures within a larger school.
Cost
21CSLA programs are offered at no cost to participants employed in Title II districts and schools in six Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Solano.
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