Have a Good Life: Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119

Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119

Sunday, April 10, 2016 by jethrojones

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.
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