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This video illustrates how expanded learning time schools, afterschool and summer programs offer the ideal time, places and conditions to equalize and advance technology - enabled learning.

It is not hard to find examples of successful expanded learning time schools across the country.

In a case - study of six blended learning, expanded learning time schools, The National Center on Time and Learning finds that «expanded learning time allows schools to deliver both breadth and depth, thus providing students with greater opportunities not just in the classroom, but beyond as they approach college and careers,» [i] directly supporting the aim of the Mays Cluster to «Prepare all students for college and career success» by «Increas [ing] the number of college and career prep opportunities.»

For the current school year, there are just 22 so - called expanded learning time schools in 11 Massachusetts districts serving 12,000 students.

The role of a community partner in expanded learning time can be an integral part of a successful expanded learning time school.

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

BEDFORD - STUYVESANT — The city is expanding its network of «community» schools, where high - needs students are given extra supports like mental and physical health services, as well as longer school days for expanded learning time and social services for their families, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

More and more mandates fill the school day, but U.S. principals still find time for students to engage in service - learning projects that expand their studies and benefit their communities.

A memorandum of understanding also allowed us to launch expanded learning time at all of our neighborhood schools; students attend school for 100 minutes more per day, equaling over 40 additional days per year.

05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

Between 1991 and 2007, the Washington, D.C. - based Center for American Progress found that more than 300 initiatives across 30 states had expanded learning time, primarily in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

99, the school's current (and fulltime) expanded learning time director, says it is also important to get all staff involved early.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edlearning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educattime unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educatTime & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edLearning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edlearning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educattime to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

Over 450 education leaders from 30 states and Washington, D.C. gathered in Boston last month for the first National Convening of Expanding Learning Time, cohosted by the National Center on Time & Learning and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Center for American Progress report: Getting Students More Learning Time Online: Distance Education in Support of Expanded Learning Time in K - 12 Schools (May 2009)(870K)

In the fall of 2006, Clarence R. Edwards Middle School («the Edwards» as it is known locally within Boston Public Schools) became one of the first schools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) InitSchools) became one of the first schools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initschools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative.

New York City Education Department to Add or Expand 40 Dual - Language Programs New York Times, 1/14/15 «But Paola Uccelli, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that some research has shown that in well - run programs, students learn both languages.

The Cincinnati, Upper Arlington, and Orange City school districts are building on new approaches already in place to expand 21st Century assessments, technology use, and learning time and places, precisely the «edges of innovation» I discuss in Education Nation.

The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.

For instance, Tiffany Cooper Gueye, chief executive officer of the nonprofit organization Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL), the focus of which is expanding learning time, noted that initially it was difficult to even use school facilities to offer programming.

Craig Haas, Special Ed and Student Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abilities.

Educators from Edwards Middle School in Charlestown, Massachusetts have provided a sample school schedule, lesson plans, professional - development resources, and more for expanded learningSchool in Charlestown, Massachusetts have provided a sample school schedule, lesson plans, professional - development resources, and more for expanded learningschool schedule, lesson plans, professional - development resources, and more for expanded learning time.

Regular school hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with expanded learning time happening Monday through Thursday from 1:40 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.

Not satisfied with students» progress on district - and state - mandated tests — and after careful deliberation by administration and staff — the Edwards Middle School implemented the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative in the 2006/07 schoolSchool implemented the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative in the 2006/07 schoolschool year.

Middle school English language arts teacher Hassan Mansaray shares how he uses an individualized learning model, Readers and Writers Workshop, to reach his students in an expanded learning time program.

The United States is engaged in an ongoing, public discussion about how to best expand afterschool time and opportunities for children and youth, to support their learning and development across the day, throughout the year, and from kindergarten through high school.

At the same time, it decided to expand the learning options at its 48 schools, all of which were then neighborhood schools with neighborhood boundaries.

Although she admits that «research shows... that marginally expanding in - school time without improving how that time is used does not improve learning» she is confident that «high intensity summer programs» can do the job, as if any such program could be brought to scale.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

In its first year as an extended - learning - time school last year, the day at Kuss was expanded by almost two hours.

Although the evidence is mounting that expanding instructional time will result in real learning gains, evidence on the costs of extending the school year is much scarcer and involves a good deal of conjecture.

Fletcher Maynard is part of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative, the first statewide effort to lengthen the school day or school year.

To be considered for Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative for struggling schools, applicants had to agree to extend the school year by 25 percent, which they could do by extending the school day.

This fall, a new task force on time, learning, and after - school, on which I've served, organized by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, will issue its report updating and expanding themes from «Prisoners of Time.&ratime, learning, and after - school, on which I've served, organized by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, will issue its report updating and expanding themes from «Prisoners of Time.&raTime.»

The National Center on Time & Learning, Inc. («NCTL»), renamed Empower Schools, Inc. («Empower») and the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Redesign Lab (the «Lab») and their founders share a common mission focused on supporting the country's most vulnerable children by expanding educational opportunities and services to help them thrive in school and inSchool of Education's Redesign Lab (the «Lab») and their founders share a common mission focused on supporting the country's most vulnerable children by expanding educational opportunities and services to help them thrive in school and inschool and in life.

The data collection and analysis are the foundation of an important conversation at schools that are seeking to maximize the time they have and to make decisions about increasing, or expanding learning time for students and planning time for teachers.

With an agenda that echoes our decade of investments — charter schools, performance pay for teachers, accountability, expanded learning time and national standards — the Obama administration is poised to cultivate and bring to fruition the seeds we and other reformers have planted.»

Redesigning and significantly expanding the school day can give students nearly two additional years of learning time.

In that time, he won praise for uniting education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening more than 100 new schools, expanding after - school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public - private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

While at PSA, she conducted program evaluations and research in the areas of expanded learning time, school - community partnerships, training and support programs for educators, social - emotional learning, and afterschool programming.

While community schools vary in the programs they offer and the ways they operate, four features — or pillars — appear in most community schools: integrated student supports, expanded learning time and opportunities, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership and practice.

This session will share and discuss CEP research on out of school learning time, (sometimes referred to as expanded learning time).

Attention in recent years to Expanded Learning Time (ELT) has begun to address out - of - school - time disparities in individual schools and in select distriTime (ELT) has begun to address out - of - school - time disparities in individual schools and in select distritime disparities in individual schools and in select districts.

Adding significantly more time by expanding the school day, school week, or school year to increase learning time for all students;

At AISR, she led the Time for Equity Indicators Project, which developed and supports the use of a comprehensive set of indicators that measure how expanded time and learning opportunities can transform the lives of students, the structure of schools, and the power of communitTime for Equity Indicators Project, which developed and supports the use of a comprehensive set of indicators that measure how expanded time and learning opportunities can transform the lives of students, the structure of schools, and the power of communittime and learning opportunities can transform the lives of students, the structure of schools, and the power of communities.

Use this tool, developed from lessons learned at expanded time schools, to determine how well enrichments are implemented at your school.

In The Case for Improving and Expanding Time In School, you'll begin to understand the research behind implementing better and more effective use of time in schools to transform student learnTime In School, you'll begin to understand the research behind implementing better and more effective use of time in schools to transform student learntime in schools to transform student learning.

Having surveyed the available evidence about community schools» outcomes — as well as evidence on component parts of the model, such as integrated student supports, expanded learning time, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership — the authors argue that community schools are an evidence - based strategy that education leaders and policy makers should support.

In addition to an increase in the number of poor students, the funding for schools declined, Common Core standards were introduced, the use of educational software increased, and, in many schools, time spent on test preparation expanded (which often detracts from learning).