Design an improved schedule that raises student achievement, increases student engagement, addresses learning loss, and maximizes the impact of staff within your existing budget.

New Solutions K12’s Secondary Scheduling Academy is a virtual, hands-on training program for school and district leadership teams to learn-by-doing and design powerful, best practice-aligned school schedules.

Upon completing the Academy, teams will have designed the key components of an improved schedule for use in the upcoming school year. This program’s accelerated timeline is aligned to the scheduling cycle and allows time for follow-on support as you continue to refine and implement your schedule.

What You Will Learn

Secondary Scheduling Academy teams will learn how to design a strategic schedule that:

• Supports your school and district goals and aligns to best practices

• Addresses learning loss and raises achievement by maximizing core instructional time and including effective academic intervention

• Increases student engagement by incorporating student voice and choice into the process

• Brings decimal-level precision to staffing and maximizes opportunities for students by staffing more efficiently within existing budgets and schedule models

• Breaks free from ingrained practices that may not be serving students well

How You Will Benefit

By participating in the Secondary Scheduling Academy, you and your team will:

• Design an improved schedule for the coming school year that meets student needs, makes up for lost learning time, and maximizes staffing within your existing budget

• Align your schedule with your vision, priorities, and research-backed best practices

• Learn how to bring decimal-level precision to staffing and maximize opportunities for students by identifying ways to staff more efficiently within existing budgets and schedule models

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

• Create dedicated time and space for your scheduling team to work together and think strategically

• Collaborate and share challenges, ideas, lessons learned, and best practices with a peer network

• Gain access to New Solutions K12’s auxiliary scheduling services for follow-on scheduling support

Who Should Participate?

This program is uniquely designed for middle and high school scheduling teams. Teams are encouraged to include both school-based and central office staff who are involved in the scheduling process. Teams may have up to five participants. Teams might include:

• District academic leaders (i.e. assistant superintendent of instruction)

• Principals

• Assistant principals or counselors responsible for scheduling

• School-based teacher leaders

Teams that are most successful:

• Include both school-based and central office staff who are involved in the scheduling process

• Have a scheduling Team Lead who sets clear goals for the team's participation in the Academy and drives active and full team participation in Academy components

• Connect the Academy to existing or on-going scheduling efforts—for example, one team hosted multiple district-wide meetings to share materials from the Academy with the broader team, wrestle with what they learned, and think through how to apply the learnings to their own district setting

Program Fees

The fee for each school-based team’s participation in the Secondary Scheduling Academy is $4,950, inclusive of three virtual training sessions, three personalized coaching calls, and New Solutions K12’s scheduling training materials, tools, assessments, and resources.

Multiple teams from the same district may enroll in the Academy. Your team’s participation in the Secondary Scheduling Academy can be funded by Title II, CARES Act, or ESSER funds. Customized Scheduling Academies and district-level support are also available. Please inquire for more details and pricing.