
Publications
White Paper: Transforming Scheduling Across a Charter Network
How Chicago's largest charter network partnered with Timely to revamp and improve scheduling across 17 campuses
Overview
Learn how Noble Schools, Chicago’s largest charter network, partnered with Timely to streamline scheduling across 17 campuses. By implementing a more efficient and equitable scheduling process, Noble achieved significant time savings, improved student scheduling accuracy, and enhanced support for new schedulers. This white paper explores the strategies behind their success, including how a unified approach improved equity and special education inclusion. Download now to see the full impact.
Key Outcomes
Efficiency Gains: Schools saved an average of 25-50 hours, completing schedules earlier and freeing school leaders to focus on instruction.
Quality Improvements: On average, ~96% of students received their full course requests through the initial scheduling process; only ~4% of students required minor, manual adjustments, such as hand-placing them into one or two classes.
Equity Focus: A standardized process allowed for equitable schedules and ensured students with high needs were prioritized in special education and multilingual programs.
Strong support for new schedulers: First-year schedulers gave Timely a perfect Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 100.