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District 97 unveils middle‑school master schedule to increase daily core instructional time and elective choice
Summary
District 97’s middle‑school redesign team presented a new schedule that moves from alternating 75‑minute classes to daily 50‑minute core classes, increases weekly math and ELA minutes and expands elective options; staff will implement the schedule for fall after PowerSchool testing and further design work.
District 97 administrators and a middle‑school redesign team presented a new master schedule to the Board of Education on March 18 that shifts from an alternating (A/B) 75‑minute block model to daily 50‑minute core classes for grades 6–8, with the stated aim of increasing instructional frequency, elective choice and alignment across the two middle schools.
The presenters included Luisa Leon (a sixth‑grade parent who served on the redesign committee), Samantha Tracy (special education teacher at Julian), Mallory (eighth‑grade ELA teacher and department chair at Brooks) and Nick Filipowski, principal at Julian. Luisa Leon told the board, “We are happy to report that this design is actually able to be run by the PowerSchool system,” signaling the schedule’s technical viability for staffing and enrollment systems.
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