Educators feel overwhelmed as they face their daily rush to survive. Volume is the enemy. Struggling to find solutions to time's mysteries, schools soon discover many factors beyond their control. Adding faculty and increasing school budgets are often out of reach. There's no magic wand handy, but there is hope.
Schools have untapped potential to create time within existing resources.
Schools must begin by taking control of their own destiny. Less is more. Personalize the learning environment by reducing the high volume, never-changing treadmill. Design ways to reduce the total number of students that teachers see each day, learn new ways to reduce the paperwork volume, and find new strategies to make better use of preparation time. Create different kinds of schedules, depending on what makes sense for various kinds of learning activities.