Turn Your Master Schedule Into a Strategic Advantage
In three focused sessions, CPS high school principals and schedulers will learn how to audit their current schedule, build intentionally around their highest-need students, and put a repeatable process in place — starting this scheduling season.
Free and Virtual | April 14, 21, and 28 at 9:00 AM CT
SESSION ONE
Using Course Requests to Audit Your Priorities
9:00 AM | April 14, 2026
Most schedules are built forward from last year. This session teaches you to look at your current schedule differently — using course request data to audit what it's actually saying about your priorities, identify gaps, and get ahead of next year's staffing needs before you start building.
SESSION TWO
Build Your Schedule Around Student Needs
9:00 AM | April 21, 2026
Every scheduling decision is a choice about which students you're prioritizing. This session walks through how to build intentionally around your highest-need student groups — including students with IEPs and multilingual learners — so those decisions are made on proactively.
SESSION THREE
Teams, Tools, and a Repeatable Scheduling System
9:00 AM | April 28, 2026
Scheduling shouldn't fall on one person. This session covers how to build and lead an effective scheduling team, how technology can speed up the scheduling cycle, and how to put a process in place that works this year and every year after.
What you'll learn:
How to use course request data to audit your current schedule against your school's priorities
How to build intentionally around your highest-need student groups, including students with IEPs and multilingual learners
How to build and lead an effective scheduling team
How to establish a repeatable scheduling process that works year after year
Who should attend: CPS high school principals, assistant principals, schedulers, and programming coordinators
“The master schedule reveals the true beliefs, attitudes, values, and priorities of the school. The school’s master schedule is like looking at an MRI of the inner workings of a school. It is the window to the soul of the school”
National Association of Secondary School Principals
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