Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119

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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