April 10, 2016

Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119

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25 minutes

Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.

Flex Mod schedule

Form of a block schedule. Certain classes that might meet 4 days a week or 3 days a week.

Videos explaining the schedule

Empower the teachers - get them out of their silos

The gray ILT times keep the classes from conflicting.

The schedule to look at

Independent learning time: with great power comes great responsibility.

Designing a PE unit based on their fitness goals.

210 clock minutes whether you meet 3 days or 4 days a week.

ILT time is class time.

Many teachers have flipped their classes.

60% of students each year were going to a 2 year or 4 year institution. Only 25–30% of students were staying in school.

SLT Structured Learning Time is some RTI time.

2000-student high school designed for the Flex Mod schedule.

Teachers don’t teach in the same rooms every day.

Teachers offices are moved to the big classrooms which have been converted to commons areas.

Rotating schedule made it so we didn’t have to build more classrooms.

River Bluff

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April 10, 2016

Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119

Listen Later

25 minutes

Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.

Flex Mod schedule

Form of a block schedule. Certain classes that might meet 4 days a week or 3 days a week.

Videos explaining the schedule

Empower the teachers - get them out of their silos

The gray ILT times keep the classes from conflicting.

The schedule to look at

Independent learning time: with great power comes great responsibility.

Designing a PE unit based on their fitness goals.

210 clock minutes whether you meet 3 days or 4 days a week.

ILT time is class time.

Many teachers have flipped their classes.

60% of students each year were going to a 2 year or 4 year institution. Only 25–30% of students were staying in school.

SLT Structured Learning Time is some RTI time.

2000-student high school designed for the Flex Mod schedule.

Teachers don’t teach in the same rooms every day.

Teachers offices are moved to the big classrooms which have been converted to commons areas.

Rotating schedule made it so we didn’t have to build more classrooms.

River Bluff

Loading…

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

Buy Communication Cards

Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com

Download Paperless Principal.

Sponsor: Sanebox

Web Site

Transformative Principal on Stitcher

Refer A Principal

Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey

LinkedLeaders: You need support. Get just-in-time mentoring at LinkedLeaders.com

We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL.

IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:

Simplify and streamline technology
Save teachers’ time
Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
Improve student performance on state assessments

🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

...more

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