Scheduling and the Whole Child

Schedule. Why Does Schedule Matter?

Why does schedule matter? Because the child’s/teen’s experience matters. Schedule predicts experience predicts performance! Schedule matters because it directly forms and impacts experience and performance.

What is Scheduling?

Scheduling is the stewardship of sacred Time, with all the dimensions that Time affords us: (1) the temporale, or the time marked by the liturgical calendar and its celebrations of the life of Christ, which is cyclical; (2) the sanctorale, or the time marked by the succession of the lives of saints, which is linear and historical; and (3) eschatological time, which in Christian belief represents the progress of time toward Judgment Day.

The Christian school schedule must pay attention to (1) the cyclical/repetitive nature of the schedule as it is repeated year to year which is cyclical; (2) the linear nature of time as each individual child progresses from year to year and through graduation which is linear; (3) the context of all of that in Christian eschatological time, the child’s development and movement towards the day when God comes in glory to renew the heavens and the earth.

What questions does Scheduling answer?

• How do children experience time in their daily and annual schedules?
• Why does the day feel so rushed?
• Is there a way to reduce the stress?
• What does it mean to teach for 21^st century colleges, careers, and life?
• Is there a Christian schedule?
• How can I increase enrollment and will a different schedule produce different results?
• Where is joy in learning?
• Is my schedule efficient and cost-effective?
• How do I fit everything in?
• What principles should I pay attention to?
• Are there compromises I should not be willing to make?
• We’re growing – how must my schedule change?
• How do we handle cross division teachers?
• Do all divisions have to have the same schedule?
• What are the characteristics of the elementary, middle, and high schedules?
• Where do I start?