# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-05-16T19:31:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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After months of assessment and discussion among administrators, a focus group of students, and community members, the district is weighing whether to adopt a block schedule format instead of its current seven-period day.

The High School Schedule Assessment project began after Carrboro High School officials approached CHCCS a few years ago about trying to better align the four high schools’ schedules. Currently, Carrboro operates on a seven-period day with alternating A/B days to allow flexibility while Phoenix Academy is on a 4×4 block schedule and both Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill high schools have a traditional seven-period schedule.

The request led to a larger discussion about how to best optimize the high school schedule for the widest range of opportunities, according to CHCCS’ Deputy Superintendent Rodney Trice. “They talked about how the heavy course loads, carrying seven or eight classes a day for the entire academic year was very demanding,” says the deputy superintendent. “It impacted their school-life balance in terms of participating in extra-curricular activities, taking care of family members, that kind of thing.”

Bob Bales – who leads curriculum and instruction for secondary education in the district – is also a leader in the schedule assessment project. He says it’s clear that while the seven-period setup works well for some students, it creates scheduling problems for others. That includes students in CHCCS’ Newcomers Program, who need additional credit hours to learn English or may be getting a late start in high school, and ones who lack either time or resources to keep up with homework loads outside of school.

The change being proposed is to move to a form of block scheduling, where the base of a student’s schedule would be four classes for the fall and different four classes in the spring. Out of the dozen schedule options the project team examined, it best strikes the balance of offering more opportunities while promoting student wellness tactics, according to Trice.

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