Faculty Council Survey

The faculty council discussed the idea of streamlining the school day by eliminating homeroom. For this year, should that change be implemented, we would have about nine minutes to re-allocate (announcements and attendance would presumably then occur during a designated five-minute time-frame during a 1-2 or 3-4 class).
The consensus among faculty council was apparent, although everyone understood that there would be some fine-tuning necessary. I will leave in the mailroom an example of the bell schedule for Willoughby-Eastlake, which does this—this is NOT the only model or available option: it is an operational schedule in a similar district.

Additionally, one of the premises we were discussing the issue under was that grade-level, alphabetized administrative lists would exist for necessary functions that could be scheduled per quarter or semester, or on as as-needed basis (to cover graduation preparations, standardized test information, and so on).
The following questions are designed to see if a building-wide consensus (60% or greater agreement) exists.
1. Homeroom is not productive time.


2. Homeroom is absolutely necessary.


3. Having an extra minute passing time between classes would reduce tardiness and hall passes.


4. Removing one passing period a day would help.


5. We could pilot a “no homeroom” schedule for the fourth marking period and then decide as a staff whether to sustain it or go back to homeroom for 2005-06.



Thanks for doing the web survey—please encourage all our colleagues to do so, too.
Please respond before noon on March 15 (The Ides of March) so that we may tabulate the survey by Wednesday’s Faulty Council meeting. Thanks.

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