BARREN COUNTY SCHOOLS
SCHOOL-BASED DECISION MAKING
FUNCTIONAL SCHOOL OPERATIONAL POLICIES
District: Barren
School: Red Cross Elementary
Policy Type: Function
Policy Number: 8.51
POLICY TOPIC DESCRIPTION
Policy for Elementary Scheduling
POLICY STATEMENT
The school schedule should accomplish the following:
• Provide quality teaching and learning time, with a minimum of six hours and ten
minutes of instruction each day.
• Provide varying learning time so that students are provided with as much time as
they need to master content and skills.
• Create a school climate that provides common planning time for teaching teams,
promotes equity, and supports varied instructional methods.
Our school council will implement literary block scheduling to reduce instructional
fragmentation, improve discipline, and provide regularly schedules, yet flexible,
opportunities for extended learning enrichment (Candy 1988, 1990; Canady and Reina
1993).
DATE ADOPTED__________________
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