DMGroup’s Elementary Scheduling Design Institute is an in-depth, hands-on professional development training program to enable your team to design strategic, student-centered elementary schedules, aligned to district priorities, staffing realities, and student needs.

Objectives of the program include:

• Sharing best practices for Elementary scheduling
• Helping audit current schedules including instructional minutes, specials, and shared staffing
• Supporting live creation of Elementary schedules in DMSchedules aligned with district priorities
• Providing individualized support through personalized coaching calls
• Creating a community of peers, nation-wide for shared learning

Who should enroll?

Elementary team members may include:

• Principals
• Counselors
• Teachers (general ed, special ed, or ESL teacher)
• District academic leads (i.e., assistant superintendent of instruction)
• District staff members involved in scheduling

How it works

Your team will learn our research-backed, methodical approach to building best-in-class schedules while keeping district priorities top of mind.

What to expect:

• Schools or district-based participation (up to 8 members): Strengthen collaboration, build internal capacity, and create a shared scheduling vision
• Flexible format: A multi-mode approach with group sessions, self-guided tools, and coaching support. All virtual.
• Learn-by-doing model: Apply strategies in real time as you build your actual schedule, guided by expert coaching, templates, and tools
• Peer learning network: Collaborate with like-minded teams to share challenges, insights, and lessons learned

Cost

Starting at $11,500 per team, or $10,500 for DMCouncil members

Includes:

• $6,500 of professional development (3 virtual group sessions + 3 virtual personalized coaching sessions)

• Discounted DMSchedules 1-year license of $5,000 for one school*

District-wide packages available upon request

*If multiple schools are represented in your ESDI team, each school will get access to a discounted license cost of $5,000 per school, with one license included in institute fee

About District Management Group

District Management Group was founded in 2004 on the belief that management techniques combined with education best practices are key to addressing the challenge facing American public schools. We partner with school and district leaders across the country and provide them with the best management and educational practices, tools, and techniques to produce measurable, sustainable improvements that help schools and students thrive.

About DMSchedules 

DMSchedules combines our powerful, web-based scheduling software, field-proven best practices, and a team of scheduling experts to help you define instructional priorities to develop effective student-centered school schedules and individual staff schedules. Today, thousands of educators nationwide use DMSchedules for their elementary school and special education scheduling.