Best Practices Guide

How to Build a Strategic School Schedule

The wrong schedule can lead to cost drain, disengaged students, and overworked teachers.

On the other hand, the right schedule can lead to students having a voice and choice in their learning, enable teaching best practices, deliver quality classroom time, unlock cost efficiency, and more.

A strategic schedule will help:

  • Amplify strategic priorities

  • Encourage teaching and learning best practices

  • Heighten student engagement

  • Ensure equitable outcomes

In this best practices guide, we walk you through key components of strategic schedule design. Learn the fundamentals that drive effective, efficient, and impactful solutions for student achievement, engagement, budget consolidation, and program success. As always, our team is here to help answer any questions along the way.

Meet the Panelists

  • David James - Managing Director | New Solutions K12

    David James

    Managing Director | New Solutions K12

    David started his career as a middle school science teacher which evolved into a leadership position at a Massachusetts middle school. In his work with New Solutions K12, David has helped numerous schools across the country optimize schedules and student outcomes, co-authored “It’s Time for Strategic Scheduling”, and shares research-driven findings to help schools drive student achievement and opportunities with effective, efficient, and strategic scheduling.

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  • Diane Rosenkrans - School Success Manager at Timely

    Diane Rosenkrans

    School Success Manager | Timely

    Diane was a former Director of Literacy Instruction, District leader, and a founding high school principal. She also served as an instructional consultant advising middle and high schools around the country on enhancing academic instruction. She now works hand in hand with school leaders and administrative teams to optimize schedules and drive outcomes with Timely.

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  • Kristin Bedont-Combs - Senior Schools Success Manager at Timely

    Kristin Bedont-Combs

    Senior School Success Manager | Timely

    Kristin bLinkedInegan her career in education as a teacher and then administrator in the Philadelphia school district. She grew into a leadership position where she oversaw all academic planning and scheduling for 200+ district schools. She’s passionate about the power of scheduling’s impact and brings that to her partnership with school leaders through Timely.

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Lubbock Independent School District partnered with Timely to optimize their scheduling and improve student and academic outcomes. See how.
Lubbock independent school district partnered with Timely's school scheduling platform to drive strategic goals, cost savings and student engagement.

White Paper | Lubbock Independent School District

Unlocking Resources Through Scheduling

As Superintendent Kathy Rollo and the team at Lubbock Independent School District (LISD) prepared for the 2023-24 school year, they faced a host of complex challenges, shared by many districts around the country. The LISD team knew they needed to simultaneously 'right-size' the district while enabling investment in new programs to enhance academic outcomes and the student experience.

LISD utilized school scheduling as a vehicle to enable priorities for the 2023-24 school year. As a result, Lubbock was able to make significant progress towards its objectives.

  • “We aren’t sitting here in August trying to handschedule kids,” said one school leader. Another noted, “Having this process really helped to take a ton of stress and anxiety off of our team.”

    Lubbock Independent School District | White Paper “Unlocking Resources Through Scheduling”

  • “We can’t ignore the fact our district has gotten smaller over the years. As a result, we are carefully and proactively addressing this reality by adjusting in ways that are respectful and supportive of our hard-working staff and, most of all, strengthens the student experience. And that requires diving into scheduling and staffing.”

    Rick Rodriguez, Chief Operating Officer, Lubbock Independent School District