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 Which of the following does your school use?– During-school meetings– Before-school meetings– After-school meetings– Late starts– Early dismissals– In-service days

 In what configurations do teachers meet?– Full faculty– Subject-area departments– Grade-level teams– Interest groups (such as committees or task forces)– Professional cohorts (such as for new teachers)

 What is supposed to happen at these meetings? What actually happens?

 Do these meetings occur daily? Weekly? Monthly? A few times a year? Why that frequency?

 Could at least some of these meeting times be used for professional learning?

 How often could different types of meetings occur? Whose permission would you need to hold meetings more frequently?

 Is there ever resistance to teachers meeting? If so, where is that resistance coming from?

 Who creates teachers' schedules? Why that person or group?

 How does the person or group that creates teachers' schedules decide who's free at the same time? Are there, or could there be, periods when those who teach the same subject or grade level are available? If not, how might the teachers who are available at the same time form professional learning cohorts?

 What is the process for proposing changes to the schedule? For deciding on changes? For evaluating whether the changes had the desired impact?

 When was the last time the schedule was tweaked or overhauled? Why then?

 Do teachers call those times when they're not teaching free periods? Planning periods? Prep periods? Something else?

 What might happen if a period called professional learning appeared on teachers' schedules?

At this point, maybe you feel like you could make the time for in-house professional learning— whether by using the meeting time you already have or by tweaking your schedule to create that time—but you have a feeling that your faculty isn't ready to use their time that way … or you can't convince the person who makes scheduling decisions to do this because they don't think it's going to work. That's because time is only one structural consideration that shapes what will and won't work in a school.