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Draft master schedule would keep trimesters, add team teaching and longer encore blocks
Summary
District staff proposed a draft 5–6 master schedule keeping 12-week trimesters, creating two-teacher teams, preserving a 20-minute Trojan Family Time (TFT) and giving encore classes longer, rotating blocks to expand arts and music.
Terry presented a draft master schedule for the proposed intermediate building that keeps elementary trimesters and assigns students to two-teacher teams. In the draft model, the day would include a 20-minute Trojan Family Time (TFT) for community building, a 40-minute combined lunch and recess and two 30-minute encore segments (with 3 minutes passing) or longer rotating encore blocks; Terry summarized: "the school day would start at 08:03 and dismiss it 02:55." (Terry).
The schedule also proposes departmentalization (two teachers per team) with protected team planning time and built-in intervention and enrichment (IE) blocks. Terry said encore classes (art, music, technology, PE) would rotate by trimester and instrumental and vocal music students would be strategically assigned so teachers can be shared with middle school resources. Board members asked how IE, TFT and encore minutes fit into the district's 412 instructional-minute constraint; administration agreed to correct a draft line item and provide the updated schedule.
