Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Here at Freedom, we will be incorporating a new activity period. Before, we had to have club meetings before school that started from approximately 7:25a.m.-7:50a.m. The problem with this is that some students don’t get to school until almost 7:40. Because of this, clubs met after school. However, some students cannot stay after; they may not have a ride home. Before we had block scheduling, Freedom had an activity period every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Those were for half an hour at the start of the school day. Dr. Staub recalls that “there were too many kids in the hallways and it was complete chaos.” Dr. Staub thinks that activity times are important and that our clubs should have a scheduled time they can meet. Our new system will usually be two days a week. The week before, any teacher can schedule a club meeting for the following week. Dr. Staub will look at the list of clubs and schedule them accordingly. If there are two clubs that have a lot of the same members, those clubs will not be scheduled on the same day. If there are only a few clubs that want to meet, there may only be one day for club meetings that week. If there are two days for meetings, one will be a Red Day and one will be a White Day. The activity periods will take place after D-TV and last about 20 minutes. If a student has no club meeting to go to then he or she must remain in their first block classroom. Each block that day will lose a few minutes and the passing time will be cut by a minute or two. Dr. Staub thinks that this system will be more successful than the systems we have had in the past. He believes it will be successful because “there is a lot more structure with the new timing and the club rosters.”