The planning team members who attended the summer seminar attend follow-up activities related to the summer seminar project on interdisciplinary teaming and block scheduling. The follow-up activities could include work with middle level centers, universities, additional inservices, site visits, consultations, etc. The advisory committee begins writing initial advisory group activities. An inservice day for faculty is scheduled which provides follow-up work on the teaming and scheduling project and information on specialized topics of concern identified by faculty to this point. The advisory committee receives additional inservicing on effective advisory programs and continues writing advisory activities.
Committees have time to meet and report.
An emphasis on team building continues and could include inservice work on cooperative skills, conflict resolution, consensus building, or social activities. The planning team spends 1-2 days in the spring on site visits and continues perfecting the teaming and scheduling plan. Interdisciplinary teams and the block schedule is established for the coming fall. The focus begins to shift to development of an interdisciplinary unit by each of the interdisciplinary teams. One interdisciplinary unit is developed by each team for use during the upcoming year.