Dr. J. Allen Queen

Educational Consultant

Professor and Former 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.