FEATURES Breaking Away from Tradition: The Farmington High School Restructuring Experience

Bolstered by the Breaking Ranks recommendation that schools develop flexible scheduling to promote varied uses of instructional time, high schools across the nation are experimenting with alternatives to tradi-tional schedules. Here is one school’s experience with implementing career pathways, initiating a student advisement program, developing an interdisciplinary curriculum, blocking classes, and detracking courses. lock scheduling has emerged as one of the latest approaches in the educational restructuring movement. Among the creative models being implemented are Copernican trimester schedules (Carroll, 1994), 4 x 4 semester models (Edwards, 1995), and alternating-day schedule