Helping You Make the Most of Every Minute

New Solutions K12 helps schools and districts turn typical elementary schedules into strategic schedules that improve outcomes and opportunities for students. Strategic schedules are designed by ensuring teaching and learning best practices guide every decision made when building the schedule. This is foundational to every level of support we offer to schools and districts.

School scheduling at the elementary level is challenging. The good news is, with knowledge of scheduling best practices, a thoughtful scheduling process, and the right expertise and tools, a better, more strategic schedule – one that is good for students, for teachers, and for the budget – is entirely within reach.

Our Services

We bring together deep knowledge of best practices and decades of experience helping hundreds of elementary schools shift their scheduling processes and design more strategic schedules that make the most of every minute of the school day.

Whether you’re looking for comprehensive, hands-on support for designing and building a strategic schedule, or want to learn about what makes a school schedule strategic and how to build a better schedule yourself, our experts are here to help.

Comprehensive Support for Designing and Implementing Strategic Elementary Schedules

We can help design and implement strategic elementary schedules that improve the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of how time is used in the school day. This facilitated schedule design and change management process takes place over a period of months as New Solutions K12 experts:

• Review existing schedules in robust detail, analyzing how time and staff resources are currently allocated

• Deliver concrete, context-specific recommendations on how the schools and district can change schedules to improve academic outcomes cost-effectively by aligning the schedule with teaching and learning best practices

• Help teams identify what is most important for their “post-pandemic” schedules to best support students and teachers, such as daily extra-time, intervention, common planning time, social-emotional learning, etc.

• Provide facilitation and technical support, as requested, for building the schedule to support these priorities and to incorporate teaching and learning best practices

• Offer guidance for how to implement the schedule well to ensure it has the desired impact

Technical Elementary-Schedule Building Support

Once you’ve figured out what to schedule, building the schedule well is essential to successfully creating strategic school schedules. Building staff and student schedules in scheduling software or in Excel requires specific technical skills and expertise, and not everyone is an expert scheduler. It can be incredibly time consuming, and often in an effort to “make everything work” an inexperienced scheduler may unintentionally create a schedule that fails to incorporate teaching and learning best practices.

Our team of experts has decades of experience building school schedules, and we can provide technical support to build schedules that successfully implement your schedule priorities.

District-Specific Elementary Scheduling Professional Development Series

This in-depth series is designed to guide school and district leaders through a step-by-step process to set a clear vision and priorities, benchmark the existing schedule against best practices, incorporate research-backed practices into their schedule, and identify opportunities to make up for lost learning due to the pandemic. Your team will:

• Build internal capacity, increase collaboration, and deepen buy-in for an improved schedule

• Receive hands-on schedule design support from New Solutions K12’s scheduling experts

• Learn how to align your schedule with your vision, priorities, and research-backed best practices

Our Approach to Elementary Scheduling

For additional resources and insights, visit What We Think About School Scheduling