…y not be able to completely ‘unschedule’ what is a highly scheduled environment, we can compromise. For example, we could start by reducing each class period by 15 minutes or another agreed upon length of time (e.g. 75 minute classes could be reduced to 60 minutes). The time saved from each period could be combined and used at the end of each day to allow students, individually or in groups, to work on their personally designed, interdisciplinary projects involving community outreach, social justice, well-being, app or product design, marketing, custom woodworking, coding, performing arts and so much more. Teachers, who are now spending fewer minutes on direct instruction earlier in the day would fill th…