MG considers a block schedule: Proposal eyes 4 periods a day

Karyn Saemann:

A decade after dismissing the idea, Monona Grove High School is once again eyeing a block schedule.

The Monona Grove School Board may be asked next month to consider an alternating block schedule beginning in the fall of 2008 in which each day has four 95-minute periods. The school currently has eight 47-minute periods.

Under the proposal, students would still take eight classes per semester because each class would meet every other day. Over two weeks, students would see each teacher five times.

The board will meet July 12 at 7 p.m. at the district office, 5301 Monona Drive.

Such a schedule is a bit different from a straight block used at Madison La Follette. In a straight block, students typically take four classes per term, meeting every day for 90 minutes.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 29, 2007 12:00 AM
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