The+Use+of+Time+in+School

This page will be devoted to posting resources, ideas, schedule prototypes, questions, and conversations around how we use time in school. Please use the discussion as a place to generate conversation around how Westminster currently uses time in ways that promote 21st Century teaching and learning. Also, ways in which the current schedule and calendar hinder the delivery of a 21st Century education.

[|On the Clock: Rethinking the Way Schools Use Time] As schools across the country struggle to meet the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and their state accountability systems, educators are searching for ways to raise student achievement. Increasing numbers of school and district leaders are turning to one of the most fundamental features of the public education system: the amount of time students spend in school. Pasted from <[]>

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[|Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer: A Progressive Education Agenda for a Stronger Nation] States and school districts around the country are considering dozens of proposals for extending the school day and year ranging from lengthening the school day by several hours to extending the school year by days, weeks or months. Minnesota’s school superintendents last year proposed increasing the school year from 175 to 200 days. A business-led group in Delaware is proposing state funding for an additional 140 school hours a year as a part of its plan for improving the state’s education system. Pasted from <[]>

[|N.Y.C. School Built Around Unorthodox Use of Time] Teachers here attribute the collegial atmosphere to the public school’s novel way of differentiating teachers’ roles and staggering their schedules. At Brooklyn Generation, teachers instruct only three classes a day, get two hours of common planning with colleagues each afternoon, and have a highly reduced student load—as few as 14 students per class. Yet the restructured scheduling costs no more to operate than a traditional schedule. Pasted from <[]>