What we have done is we have changed that to still leading with an advisory class. We have added a 30-minute flex time which we'll talk about later which gives teachers and students more of a chance to do things like intervention or enrichment for 30 minutes every day.

I was that teacher that said I'm having the best year that I've had since COVID. And a lot of that is because we have that time to build relationships with students.

I have seen such a decrease in stress because on these days I have these classes and I know that I have time if I don't get my work done in class, I have time at home before I can come back. And that has just been a game-changer for him overall.

He goes, "I didn't think I was going to be able to." He goes, "But I I think I can now. My goal is to graduate high school." And he said, "I couldn't do the work that I was being asked to do. That's why I didn't do anything." He goes, "I think I can do it now.

Block scheduling would be a very bad thing to mandate on an entire school that didn't want to do it because you have to be willing to shift instruction... if a teacher is not willing to shift how they teach, we are squandering the power of the block.

My big piece was if our teachers aren't invested in what they're teaching, if they're not interested in what they're teaching, there's no way the kids are going to be... not only do we have 100% staff buy-in, but we have the excitement, we have the passion, we have people working across multiple categories within school.

The history of American education is replete with good ideas and a cascade of reforms that may work for some students in some places, but generally fail to deliver on initial claims. Each cycle takes time and resources. On repeat, they also breed cynicism and doubt among educators and the public that dramatic improvement is even possible.

Sustainable and effective change involves identifying the primary drivers of weak outcomes, targeting a small number of high-leverage processes for change, and then devoting attention to their continuous improvement over time.

Every opportunity that that gives this district the resources, the the infrastructure to create those moments... And I I one other thing in the set of change projects you've put together, it it is clear from my reading what problem is being addressed.

I think adding the word navigating before it, I think it's the key to making a difference there that I think there's all kinds of things that we could try to do to improve that, but I think the navigation is what's been missing.

I came to the conclusion that the whole is really greater than the sum of its parts. And it is so well integrated and so cohesive um that I know it's going to be effective and I know it's going to work. I like that confidence.