Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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Schedules Computerized in Massachusetts ref .,,,,,Y if fn... .. - f ,ttsh Tiki tsust ee t Mn Rock Little, who spends half his day as a scheduler and the other half as a math teacher, works on a studen t's schedule in the guidance suite. Rickards schedulers Mrs. Merry Spei- del and Nlr. Rock Little worked with Ron Nleilke, from Fort Lauderdale, to build the master schedule before school was out in June, 1971 and then they processed the students requests into a program computer in Boston, Nlass. Nluch hand scheduling was done by the schedulers because the computer could not schedule everythingjust right. Twenty-one mods, which lasted 20 minutes apiece, equaled one school day. Twelve mods a week were required for one course for the students. Free time was lent to them to go to resource centers to study. Everyone had a different schedule everyday in the 5-day cycle. lVlr. Little and lVlrs. Speidel arranged to have a scheduler in the guidance office to help the students with their schedules all day. - gi' N M ..-wfmut Q . ,zr Scheduler Mrs. Merry Speidel and aide Mrs Rachel Wade help senior Lulu Su tton check her second semester courses. 23

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Flexible Staffing Program Implemented This was the year for the first steps in implementation of Flickards' flexi- ble staffing program. Last year, Rickards underwent a feasibility study after having been chosen to participate in a pilot program. lVlrs. Jo Glick was appointed project director with Mrs. Dot Polcyn as her secretary. After a year of writing behavioral objectives and job descrip tions and submitting requests for equipment for resource centers, fac- ulty and students were ready to plunge into the program. Flexible staffing was intended to let a teacher give more individual help and to allow teachers to instruct large groups or small groups as they might prefer. Last year's planning sessions also resulted in the decision that modular scheduling was a necessary thing to flexible staffing. Such scheduling was intended to give the student more self direction. lTop Rightl Mrs. Jo Glick, project direc- tor, talks over flexible staffing with a member of the teaching staff lBot'tom Rightl Mrs. Dat Polcyn, secretary to Mrs. Glick, instructs a student how to put toge ther pamphlets on flexible staffing, 22 'N PZIIIKARDS ' g' k , tstmms fy '

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Committees Share Decision Making In an attempt to diffuse the decision making procedures of the school three committees were the Personnel Screening, Curriculum and Student- Faculty Advisory Committee. As an advisory board on interviewing applicants for teachers and aides the Personnel Screening Committee was elected. On this committee was the chairman, lVlr. P.C. Wu and four other members. The Curriculum Committee worked to develop plans for this past school year. During the summer they work- ed on job descriptions, school bud- gets and directed several workshops for teachers and aides. This commit- tee contained 11 teachers plus Nlr. Doug Frick who was chairman. The Student-Facu lty Advisory Board acted in an advisory capacity in the development of school policies. lVlr. Tom Askins was chairman of this committee. There were seven other teachers plus the presidents of all classes and ICC on this committee. 24 Q , gpm Screening Committee members Mn George Williams, Mrs. Margie Cash, Mrs. Frances Stall worth, Mr. P. C Wu and Principal O.P. Weaver discuss a teaching applicant Mn Tom Askins, Student-Faculty Advisory Committee chairman, .talks with class pres- idents Farris Vickery and Brenda Perry. Curriculum Committee chairman Mn Doug Frick and committee members Mr. Larry Parkey and Mr. Dan Hall examine agendas.