Culminating Experience - Week 1

My culminating experience is one that I have been looking forward to for some time. At the beginning of the school year, our grade school principals made changes to the elementary schedules that caused some major problems when it came to reporting, GPA calculation, and meeting minute requirements. As a result, our school president asked me to look at developing a schedule that could be used at both grade schools.

This new schedule had to address certain shortcomings of the current schedule. The biggest challenge was that the two schools share teachers. So, in addition to prep time, I also had to figure in travel time between the locations, about a 10 minute trip.

I have been thinking about this project all winter and am now ready to move forward. I think I have a good plan in place and I should be able to accomplish my goals in the given time.

Writing the proposal for the project really made me realize how much time had to be put into this project. I have done schedules before but have not had to write down all of the steps involved.

As this project moves forward, I will be taking tips from the change game that we played in our last course. I have lots of talking to do and lots of questions to ask before putting together something that will solve the majority of our issues. I have never been one to back away from a challenge. I cannot wait to get started.