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Block Scheduling

As part of the community-led strategic plan, Pueblo City Schools is implementing a block schedule beginning 2008-2009 academic year.  Block scheduling is being adopted as a way to personalize our learning environment at the high school level.

The benefits of Block Scheduling includes:

• provides additional instructional time; 
• supports interdisciplinary experiences;
• provides a vehicle to improve instruction and learning; 
• provides in-depth, uninterrupted experiences resulting in less lesson fragmentation; 
• encourages cooperative learning, problem solving, decision making, research, use of manipulatives, discovery learning and hands-on projects; 
• allows students more intense focus on subject matter; 
• better meets the needs for the different learning styles of students and the teaching styles of teachers; 
• provides the flexibility to coordinate special programs in academic and nonacademic subjects; 
• facilitates the use of the community as a learning resource; 
• eliminates unnecessary, unstructured passing times between classes; 
• improves attendance and reduces discipline referrals and the failure rate, and
• provides increased individualized teacher-student interaction. 

Block scheduling is a type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day for a longer period of time. This is intended to result in more time for teaching due to less time wasted due to class switching and preparation.