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Flex Time

Enriching Students - Why Create a Flex Block?

Enriching Students - How to Create a Flex Block?

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Making Room for Change is an educational book that will be valuable to anyone involved in secondary education. The book will provide clear examples, research, and personal reflections of how building in flexible time can be different from the historic middle and high school scheduling models. Educators of all ages and levels of experience can benefit from learning and building in support and enrichment opportunities for their students' daily routine. This book is a must read for college secondary education majors as this model begins to spread rapidly throughout our country.

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Flex Time 101 Online Course

Learn more about solving the time problem in education at the secondary level!

Enroll and complete this two hour online course on the topic of flex time and learn how you can successfully implement the flex time model into your school’s community. You will take away a list of suggested steps for successful implementation and a two hour professional development certificate upon enrollment in the course.

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We offer a variety professional development options to meet the Flex Time needs of your school. Contact us to see how we can serve your school today!

Brian Pickering, M. Ed

Brian is a passionate educator who has worked in Education for nearly 30 years as a teacher, coach, athletic director, administrator, and author. Flexible schedules was a solution that came about following a simple student request that couldn't be answered. This student was requesting to see a teacher during her advisory period. She was a high achieving student, but when she needed some extra help during the school day, there was no time for her to get it in the schedule that his school had used for decades. She couldn't get to school any earlier, and her afterschool hours were filled with extracurricular activities. As a staff at ConVal in 2010, we began to think more about how they were serving their students. Why couldn't students see the teachers they needed to during the school day? This was the origin of flexible schedules. While using the Enriching Students scheduling software, Brian and his school began to have students going where they needed to go and they later grew the flexible block into something more amazing than they ever originally imagined it to be. The results of flex time included increased student performance, improved attendance, an enhanced positive school culture, and school data showing significant decreases in discipline. His staff had created a school where students wanted to attend. This exciting idea of flexible schedules has rippled and now is in nearly 200 schools across the country.

Brian has been recognized on multiple occasions in his educational career for his hard work and dedication to student success.

Some of these awards included:

- 2016 N.H Principal of the Year

- former N.H. High School Basketball Coach of the Year

- former N.H. Athletic Director of the Year

- former N.H. Special Education Athletic Director of the Year

Publications:

published in the November issue of "Principal Leadership" Magazine with an article entitled "How Flexible Blocks Enhance Personalized Learning."

Presentations:

Keynote speaker at the 2017 Student Enrichment Summit.
Keynote speaker at the 2016 Inspiring Conversations in Education Conference.
Presented at the 2016 Student Enrichment Summit.

Read some of his work now:

School Culture

Creativity and Innovation

Nathan Bisson, M. Ed

Nathan is a NH certified teacher and school counselor who is currently practicing as a high school counselor in Langdon, NH. He has had the great opportunity of experiencing flex time in three separate schools through graduate school positions and in his current position. While previously working at Walpole Middle School in Walpole, NH, Nate was able to help their school transition into an original flex time model. Throughout his time as a school counselor, he has been working to enhance the practices of school counseling through using flex time in creative and effective manners in alignment with the ASCA model.

Some of his recent accomplishments are as follows:

Publications:

Publication in the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges’ (COPLAC) Metamorphosis research journal.
Publication in the New Hampshire School Counselors Association newsletter.

Presentations:

Presented at the 2015 Student Success Summit.
Presented at the Inspiring Conversations in Education Conference (2015, 2016, & 2017)
Presented at the 2015 Academic Excellence Conference.
Presented at the 2015 Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges Annual Meeting