Individual Challenges........ Individual Needs......Individual Solutions....
Just as no two fingerprints are identical, neither are any two schools, school districts, teaching approaches, nor approaches to solving problems. The same tools, skills and challenges may set before hundreds of school principals are apt to yield as many differing designs and outcomes.
Today's educational environment has unparalleled challenges, complexity,
Fluctuating student enrollment........ .......changing course-load mix requirements, revised educational requirements, testing-oriented curriculum objectives, and fiscally-dynamic staffing resource issues are furthering pressure on school districts, administrators and in-building personnel.
Socially and academically generated pressures over test score performance have raised the bar for curriculum delivery (and efficacy) - yet traditional school organizational and structural models often do not lend themselves to successfully achieving the objectives.
Despite greater fiscal constraints, academic performance is not permitted to diminish. Solving the problem of delivering "more" with "less" often boils down to design, development, deployment of highly efficient and equally effective scheduling models and systems at the school level.
While Middle and High School scheduling requirements are vastly different, a number of key common elements have emerged. Merenbloom Seminars & Consulting has enjoyed great success addressing these complex and essential objectives:
Common problems reported in schools / districts often point to schedule issues as a key solution source. Some of the reported issues include:
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Poor student achievement on state and national examinations
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Pressure from “High Stakes” Testing
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Matching teaching resources to course load demands
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Reductions in funding / fiscal constraints
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Growing or high absenteeism and/or dropout rates
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Union / Teacher Staffing problems & complaints
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Increased demand for remedial course offerings and enrollments
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HS – Dropout rate issues / trends
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HS – Transitional problems with incoming 9th Grade classes
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Pressure re: student groupings (academic, social, etc.)
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Difficulty in managing / employing existing schedule design to address current (and/or revised) needs
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Scheduling problems: Computer system software not effective in meeting scheduling needs / requirements
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