What are your criteria for deciding how to schedule time for professional learning?

Some of the criteria you might use are these:

• Enables all teachers in a grade level or department to meet together every day / once a week / once a month.
• Does not adversely impact one group of teachers.
• Conforms to existing starting and finishing times for students.
• Minimizes district expenses for substitute time.
• Does not inconvenience parents.
• Provides students with enrichment/remediation opportunities before or after school.
• Enables the district to use its existing transportation schedule.
• Requires some / significant support from volunteer parents and other community residents.
• Provides consistency among all schools in the district.

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