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When the pandemic forced schools to rethink scheduling overnight, Phoenixville Area School District (PA) turned to DMSchedules to quickly build hybrid schedules that supported social distancing and rotating student cohorts.

What began as a crisis response became a districtwide transformation. Today, Phoenixville Area SD uses DMSchedules for elementary and special education, small group instruction, and shared staff scheduling, giving leaders districtwide full visibility into how time and resources are used.

District Management Journal • PRISM • Transforming the Use of Time: Phoenixville Area School District (PA) When Phoenixville Area School District (PASD) in Pennsylvania made the decision in early 2020 to modernize its elementary scheduling with DMSchedules, leaders …

Still building your school schedule in spreadsheets? There’s a faster and easier way.

Join Principal Chelsea Dziedzic from Seattle Public Schools (WA) and the DMSchedules team for a casual conversation about common scheduling challenges and see how DMSchedules helps schools solve them in real time.

🗓 Tuesday, June 9
🕒 12 pm EST

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Many districts are managing numerous initiatives without a clear framework to prioritize efforts and align around shared goals.

See how Niles Township High School District 219 (IL) partnered with DMG to build a focused, student-centered strategic plan grounded in data and community input. The plan’s five clear priority areas reflect what students, staff, families, and community members identified as most critical to the district’s success.

DMGroup Spotlight: Strategic Planning in Suburban Districts Like many districts, Niles Township High School District 219 (D219), a suburban district in Illinois, struggled to manage numerous well-intentioned initiatives without a clear, unified framework to prioritize efforts, track progress, and ensure accountability towards goals. To create a more focused

Our Fall 2026 Secondary Scheduling Institute is now open for enrollment! https://hubs.ly/Q04gDx1d0

The Institute gives school and district leaders a structured process and clear framework to identify gaps, set priorities, and redesign schedules that are more student-centered.

Take advantage of our Early-bird pricing by Aug 1!

DMGroup's Secondary Scheduling Support: Secondary Scheduling Institute DMGroup's Secondary Scheduling Support. Join our Secondary Scheduling Institute to learn how to design best-in-class middle and high school schedules.

Scheduling season is in full swing, and specials are often the most complex part of elementary scheduling due to staffing, shared spaces, and time constraints.

The right approach can save weeks of revisions and create a schedule that works better for everyone.

Here are a few strategies that can make scheduling specials more manageable:

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In April, district leaders from across the Midwest and Massachusetts came together at two DMG roundtable events to explore one central challenge: how to better align systems, resources, and supports to meet growing student needs.

Through candid conversations and real district examples, leaders from Rockford Public Schools (IL), Community Unit School District 300 (IL),
Shrewsbury Public Schools (MA), and Chelmsford Public Schools (MA) provided a behind the scenes look at their work to better support students.

District Leaders Convened to Discuss Sustainable Success In April, over 65 district leaders gathered for DMG's two roundtable events, one in Chicago focused on strategic budgeting and systems alignment and another in the Boston area focused on special education. Leaders from Rockford Public Schools (IL), Community Unit School District 300 (IL), Shrewsbury

Still working in spreadsheets? Facing weeks of scheduling work?

Join us to see how school and district leaders use DMSchedules to solve common scheduling challenges and quickly build schedules that work for students and staff.

🗓 Thursday, May 7
🕒 12 pm EST

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On April 23, 50+ Midwest district leaders gathered in Chicago for a DMG roundtable on Sustainable Success: Creating Lasting Impact with Focused Resources.

The conversation opened with a State of the Sector grounded in today’s realities: rising student needs, tighter budgets, and growing pressure to deliver results. From there, the focus shifted to how leading districts are responding.

At Rockford Public Schools, Superintendent Ehren Jarett and team shared how they’re using DMG’s PRISM to take a more strategic, data-driven approach to resource allocation.

At Community Unit School District 300, Superintendent Martina Smith highlighted how a special education opportunity review helped realign systems, teams, and MTSS implementation to deliver more consistent, equitable support across schools.

Key takeaway: sustainable success isn’t about doing more, it’s about aligning what you already have. Leaders left with a clearer, more disciplined approach to investing every dollar where it matters most.

Learn how Grand Island Public Schools drove measurable attendance gains in just nine weeks.

Chronic absenteeism affected over 20% of students, until a focused partnership with District Management Group and the Breakthrough Results (BTR) program delivered rapid, measurable progress.

In just nine weeks, improved attendance among fifth and sixth graders translated into the equivalent of 30 and 65 additional instructional days, respectively.

DMG Spotlight: Increasing Attendance in Grand Island (NE) with Breakthrough Results In Grand Island Public Schools, Nebraska’s sixth-largest district, over 20% of the district’s 10,000 students were chronically absent. While the district had tried various strategies, none significantly moved the needle.