Rogues’ Blog: School Introduces Protected Planning Time During Existing Meeting

FICTIONAL SATIRE — This institution, incident and dialogue are invented. No real person or organisation is depicted.

A fictional school has allocated protected planning time during a meeting that already contains eleven agenda items. Staff are encouraged to use any silence between items to design inclusive lessons.

A teacher asked whether the plan came with time somebody could actually use. Leadership said the timetable was a shared aspiration.

The team identified one priority, a realistic allocation and work that would wait. The resulting plan was smaller but possible. Management described this as a promising pilot in recognising that minutes are not an unlimited natural resource.

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