Helping You Make the Most of Every Minute
New Solutions K12 helps turn typical middle and high school schedules into strategic schedules that improve outcomes and opportunities for students. Strategic schedules are designed by ensuring teaching and learning best practices and student need guide every decision made when building the schedule. This is foundational to every level of scheduling support we offer to schools and districts.
School scheduling, especially at the secondary level, is complex. 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
At New Solutions K12, we bring together deep knowledge of best practices and decades of experience helping middle and high schools across the country shift how they approach scheduling and design more strategic schedules.
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 Secondary Schedules
We can help design and implement strategic secondary 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 and student engagement cost-effectively
Help teams identify what is most important for their “post-pandemic” schedules to best support student learning and engagement, such as intervention, advisory, student voice and choice, social-emotional learning, etc.
Provide facilitation and technical support, as requested, for building the schedule to support these priorities
Offer guidance for how to implement the schedule well to ensure it has the desired impact on student learning and teacher effectiveness
Technical Secondary-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. At the secondary level, an untrained scheduler may unintentionally build a schedule that results in inefficient use of staff and students missing out on courses they would have otherwise been able to take.
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.
Light-Touch Technical Support & Thought Partnership
Our experts coach your schedulers through the schedule-building process. We will:
Help identify key questions, challenges, and needs related to building individual school schedules through an initial consultation
Serve as an on-going thought partner, helping your schedulers troubleshoot and think through scheduling hurdles, reviewing documents and draft schedules, if desired, and advising on schedule creation
Hands-On Technical Scheduling Support
In this in-depth, “hands-on-the-keyboard” service, our experts will build the schedule for you. In addition to all of what’s included in the Light-Touch service, we will:
Partner with school leadership to understand schedule priorities
Build the schedule using your scheduling software (or Excel for Elementary schedules)
Provide data-collection templates, if needed, for the key data and information needed to build the schedule
Strengthen your team’s capacity for scheduling in the future with a 90-minute PD session tailored to the needs and interests of the team
Secondary Scheduling Academy
New Solutions K12’s Secondary Scheduling Academy is a hands-on training program for school and district leadership teams to build capacity and create powerful, research-aligned school schedules. Participating teams learn from in-depth training, personalized coaching and feedback, and support as they apply learnings to design the key components of an improved schedule. Academy participants will:
Design an improved schedule with our guided self-assessment, step-by-step process, and hands-on support from NSK12 scheduling experts.
Align the schedule with your vision, priorities, and research-backed best practices to meet student needs
Build internal capacity, increase collaboration, and deepen shared buy-in for an improved schedule by bringing together a cross-functional team of school and district leaders.
Create time and space for your scheduling team to build skills by stepping out of day-to-day work and thinking strategically about your school’s most important scheduling issues.
Collaborate and share challenges, ideas, lessons learned, and best practices with a peer network of likeminded school and district leaders.
District-Specific Secondary 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
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Our Approach to Secondary Scheduling
Want to learn more about the best practices and process we recommend for building strategic secondary schedules?
Check out our free How-To Guide: Designing Strategic Secondary Schedules.
For additional resources and insights, visit What We Think About School Scheduling