Credentials

Dr. J. Allen Queen

Professor and Chair
Department of Educational Leadership

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

I serve as a major consultant in block scheduling to school systems throughout the United States. I have been a classroom teacher, principal, curriculum specialist and college administrator. I have made hundreds of presentations to a wide variety of educational groups on the topics of block scheduling, school discipline and effective time management for instruction.

As an expert in the area of block scheduling, editors from textbook companies and national journals continue to recommend my work to schools throughout the United States. I have assisted school boards and school systems from South Carolina to California. In 1990, I began my work by designing and conducting some of the first, original in-service for educators in school systems moving from a traditional academic year of six-period, fifty-five minute class schedules to a four-period, ninety-minute schedule. Since that time, I have worked with numerous schools collecting data, training teachers and evaluating the effectiveness of block scheduling. Additionally, I have presented my findings at national education conferences and have authored books and professional journal articles on block scheduling.

I believe block scheduling provides students with a unique educational opportunity and educators with a truly relevant framework to begin the reconceptualization of curriculum and instruction. Educators will discover that block scheduling may be used as a catalyst for change as it is more than just an administrative tool; instead, it can become the basis of a belief system design to deal with numerous problems. Block scheduling provides real possibilities for positive and meaningful change.

Presentations

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Association of Teacher Education

National Council for the Social Studies

Textbooks & Journal Articles

The Block Scheduling Handbook
Guidebook for Principals and Teachers, published by Corwin Press, 2003

Journal of Educational Research,
March/April, 2002

Phi Delta Kappan,
November, 2000
The High School Journal,
December 1998

Phi Delta Kappan,,
October, 1997

NASSP Bulletin,
Articles in 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997

The 4x4 Block Schedule,
textbook published by
Eye on Education, 1998

Hot Topics
The Center for Evaluation, Development and Research of Phi Delta Kappa, 1999