Deadlock resolution

Here is our scenario - we have a ui screen where schedules are created for students  - these schedules are stored in - studentsschedules table. Very intensive update/insert/delete oriented table all the time.

We also provide a background service which syncs schedules to student calendars , this service pings our databaseserver every 15 minutes for any new schedules depending on the calendar client. The code for this is a simple update to the table - studentschedules and then select from studentschedules with joins to other tables.

We are facing some deadlock errors on our production server,  to resolve this , on the background service , I am planning to move the update and read into two different transactions, one with the update and one with the read. I am going to put isolation level for the read transaction as a "read uncommitted". I am going to test my results then and re-tweak depending on my results.

I am really not concerned about the dirty reads , because the service keeps pinging our servers at some point the data will be correctly updated. In our case the deletes might flow through a  little late which is fine with us.

Any thoughts or opinions on this approach?