Sentences with phrase «add instructional days»

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As a result, administrators felt that they had to add instructional time to the day, and there were only so many places to find those minutes.

As Lemov calculates, the time saved on such mundane tasks quickly adds up to days of extra instructional time over a school year.

Cost estimates for increasing allocated time in school vary by state, but by one estimate it would cost approximately $ 50 million annually for each district in California to add a single instructional day.

But even more egregious was the union's effort, in 1988, to thwart legislation adding 20 minutes to the instructional day.

• Schools nationwide, especially those in rural areas, are wrestling with personnel and leadership changes driven by the program's requirements, along with a mandate to add extra time to the instructional day.

To make up for five instructional days lost during the teacher walkout, the Jenks Public Schools Board of Education voted in favor of adding...

To make up for five instructional days lost during the teacher walkout, the Jenks Public Schools Board of Education voted in favor of adding 30 minutes to each school day beginning Monday,...

The school added 20 minutes of instructional time to the regular school day, expanded summer school, and created a study skills class for students who need support.

In Michigan, where rough winters are commonplace, many districts have already exhausted their allotment of six snow days and lawmakers are considering giving schools more flexibility to add on instructional minutes.

The Generation Schools Network, a nonprofit that partners with schools and districts in New York and Colorado to launch new schools, has added up to 30 percent more learning time for students without increasing costs or teacher workload while simultaneously increasing the time for teachers to plan and collaborate.30 Through innovative school schedules that include three types of teachers with dual roles, teachers have up to two hours daily to plan lessons with their colleagues and receive coaching.31 Schools utilizing the Generation Schools Model hire three different teaching teams for distinct teaching roles and stagger the teams throughout the day and year to increase instructional time for students.

If testing were abandoned altogether, one school district in this study could add 20 — 40 minutes of instructional time to each day, whereas the other could add almost an entire class period to each day for grades 6 — 11.

Added to those instructional challenges, the day might include speaking with one child with a behavior problem, meeting with a parent who is in tears, and compiling assessments on the students in the class.