Question+7

**How can we plan for more weekly/extended planning time for teachers to plan for these experiences? (Robin and Judy)**

When investigating/researching answers to your questions, please keep in mind the following questions: ~What did we find out? ~What implications does this information have for writing action plans? Each group will need to prepare a short written report stating your findings as related to the 2 above mentioned questions (2 pages or less, copied for each team member). You will also need to prepare a 6-8 minute presentation for each question to be presented on March 10th.

 1. Let early dismissal days become extended planning.  2. Use parent volunteers in class for 1 to 1 ½ hours before/after conference period to give approx. 2 hours planning time. Do it one grade level per day.  3. Offer more whole grade level programs each nine weeks and teacher would not attend and schedule times to butt against conference/specials times  4. Teams go on annual summer planning team retreat (at own expense)  5. Teachers on one grade level can forfeit planning time on one day while another grade level uses their planning time as well as another grade level’s (2 planning periods on one day, followed by none on the next day)  6. Divide students between some classes on grade level for an afternoon and let part of the team plan together; reciprocate the next day. For example: 5th grade ELAR teachers take t kids so the math and science teachers could plan half day; the next day/another day ELAR gets the half day. Another example: 4th grade doubles up classes on certain days from 1:45—3:40 to allow content teams to plan. Students work on content related extension activities.  7. Pair up grade levels, let older students work with younger students---one grade level gets planning time; switch on another day.  8. Rework normal schedules for two days, allowing each grade level to have their lunch, recess and specials back to back plus an additional 30 minutes to plan. Parents supervised classed for recess, lunch and the extra 30 minutes (could put students with buddy class/grade for those 30 minutes). Possible use of staff to cover to support parent volunteers.