Finalized Master Schedule for 2010 - 11

Even though I'm no longer the principal of IDEA Mission (decided this summer to leave the school in the capable hands of my former assistant principal), I'm still plan to keep adding to this blog as I continue my work in another position (more on this later!).  Here's the update schedule for this coming school year:

Revised Master Schedule 2010-11  (with 2nd grade change:  to prepare for the 3rd - 5th grade model, this year's 2nd graders will receive Math in English and Our World in Spanish--this may or may not be the case for the following year's 2nd graders.  Part of me thinks our new K/1 model should extend into 2nd grade the following year, including Teaching Fellows and the weekly language switch for all content areas, Math/Our World included.  This year needed to be different, however, as this year's 2nd graders have been our "guinea pigs" and haven't had full DL since Kindergarten the way the class below them has had)


Thoughts I've had for 3rd - 5th grade:  This would be intense on the budget, but a "wishlist" setup for 3rd - 5th grade would be 5 teacher teams.  The responsibilities would be as follows:

English Team Teacher (2 per grade level--teaches 2 homerooms)

   * ELA

   * Science

Spanish Team Teacher (2 per grade level--teaches 2 homerooms)

   * SLA

   * Social Studies

Math Teacher (1 per grade level--teaches 90 min math blocks to all 4 homerooms)

   * Math (in English)

I know it doesn't maintain a perfect 50/50 language division but it's critical, for testing purposes, that the students have math and science instruction in English in the upper grades.  Now, if this wouldn't work budgetarily (and, unfortunately, it likely won't) then we'd have to get really really creative and think about how we can get the above content areas with their assigned language of instruction into a two-teacher only teaming situation.  More thinking...nothing has proved impossible yet!