Sentences with phrase «expanded school days»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week called for more expanded school days and years.

In this Huffington Post essay, TASC President Lucy N. Friedman argues that expanded school days offer the time, place and conditions to personalize learning, next - generation style.

Our Community Schools partner network is working to expand the school day in our community schools and to integrate social - emotional, medical, dental, and nutritional services for students and families in our neighborhoods.

In the budget presentation, the governor is expected to explain how he's going to pay for programs announced earlier this month in his State of the State message, including an expanded school day and school year.

In last year's address, he proposed expanding the school day and the school year, raising standards for teachers, expanding full - day pre-kindergarten.

When the University of Chicago designers founded two charter schools serving predominantly low - income African American students, they greatly expanded the school day, week, and year.

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

Read about how the expanded school day at Aspire Port City allows teachers more time to analyze student data to ensure that the additional time they have with students is well - used.

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

Whether it is pay for performance, charter schools, an expanded school day, new teacher evaluations, or a myriad of programs with varying acronyms, it seems as though «this» is the answer for which we have all been searching.

BART has also been recognized and featured by The National Center on Time & Learning in Advancing Arts Education Through an Expanded School Day.

- or the transformation model, which requires among other things, replacing the principal; using test scores to evaluate teacher and administrator performance; and expanding the school day, school week or school year to increase learning time.

Flexibility, however, enables states to use these funds to expand the school day or year to provide more time for student learning — a powerful intervention when students use the additional time for high - quality activities.

David Farbman, Dennie Palmer Wolf, and Diane Sherlock, Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded School Day: Lessons from Five Schools, National Center on Time & Learning, 2013.

Site visits provided an opportunity to witness first - hand how TASC ELT schools are partnering with CBOs to provide an expanded school day for students, especially underprivileged students.

The Martin Luther King School in Boston and nine other Massachusetts public schools used a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education to expand their school days by at least two hours.

The department's decision is also timely, as many state and local officials have of late taken action to make it easier for schools to expand the school day if a school determines that it is needed or could be beneficial.

ExpandED Schools works to build education enrichment into an expanded school day because extra time spent in engaging learning activities leads to better outcomes in school and beyond.

At the start of the 2013 - 14 school year, we began collaborating with the New York City Department of Education's Middle School Quality Initiative, NYC City Council, Robin Hood and Harvard EdLabs to bring struggling readers up to grade level through Middle School ExTRA — Middle School Expanded Day + Tutoring = Reading Achievement — a pioneering initiative to expand the school day in 20 New York City middle schools.

Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded School Day, presents case studies of five schools utilizing the longer student and teacher days to prioritize time for arts education.

«An analysis of data from the second year of TASC's national demonstration of an expanded school day for elementary and middle school students shows that ExpandED Schools improved school culture, decreased rates of students» chronic absenteeism and helped students develop positive learning habits and attitudes.

With support from the Noyce Foundation, NCTL worked with five expanded - time schools, each paired with a science - focused community - based organization, to embed new, imaginative STEM programming in a redesigned and expanded school day.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

Summer and expanded learning: Better understanding the impact of high - quality summer learning programs on disadvantaged children, and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students.

Students in Rocketship schools receive a challenging, college prep curriculum during an expanded school day (8 a.m. to 4 pm.).

By expanding the school day, 10 schools offer enrichment and project - based learning as well as more math and reading.

Not exact matches

2006 saw the addition of Girls play, while 2007 saw the event expand to two days and include a free Middle School clinic.

Many of these providers expand their services to coincide with scheduled days off at local schools.

You'll need to collect some data on schools and school meal participation in your state, as well as days of service, and the report you generate will be a tool in your arsenal to advocate for expanding school breakfast.

Officials there say only 10 new children have come since they expanded a before - and after - school latchkey kid program into an all - day facility.

* 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

Without contracts, the facilities «day - to - day sharing is now stretched to the limit as both parks and schools expand their activities.

I'm not saying that normal school lunches are all that great - but atleast the tacos are made with meat that day and placed on a tortilla for the kids to eat then not filled with so much preservatives to expand shelf life.

Cincinnati Public Schools in OH used their grant to support Cultural Celebration Days, which offered students the opportunity to expand their palates, lean about unfamiliar fruits and vegetables, and explore world cultures.

The Central region within three years have benefited from the rehabilitated Cape Coast Stadium, the Atta Mills memorial research library, expanded facilities of second cycle schools in the region, ten of the Community Day SHS and asphalted town roads.

«The Governor also proposed initiatives to support our youngest children, including expanding opportunities for prekindergarten in high - need school districts and implementing the recommendations of the First 1,000 Days on Medicaid working group so all children start life with the services and supports they need to excel as they grow.

Most of their day was spent debating a «big ugly» revenue language bill that dealt with dozens of Issues like authorizing ride - hailing services, subsidizing tuition at state schools, reviving the 421 - a tax credit and expanding Gov. Andrew Cuomo's power to make mid-year budget adjustments.

In recent days that agenda has focused more on Upstate as Cuomo rolled out details for expanded gambling, then two revenue - sharing agreements with Native American - run casinos, and now a tax program that would favor communities with SUNY schools that are primarily outside of New York City.

De Blasio said he'd use the money to make the school day longer, expand summer school, and to boost science and technology offerings.

«If we were to have that funding, we would be able to have longer school days, summer learning, hiring more teachers, expanding our technical and science education, as well as career and technological education, and arts education programming.»

The start of work on 200 Community Day Senior High Schools, implementation of a $ 156 million Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP), implementation of a Progressively Free S.H.S. Programme in 2015, start of work to expand infrastructure in our technical and vocational institutions among others are evidence of his work.

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.

One would suspend the license of a driver for 60 days after they get two speeding violations in school zones in an 18 - month period and the other would expand the number of speeding cameras near schools around the city from 140 to 290.

He began with the implementation of the Progressively Free SHS, implemented the Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP), built Community Day Senior High Schools - the largest addition to our school stock since independence, expanded infrastructure in hundreds of existing Senior High Schools among other interventions.

The establishment of the Community Day Senior High School would expand and improve access to secondary education as well as develop the quality and affordability of education in Ghana.

Along with his running mate for lieutenant governor, Brian Jones, a former Harlem elementary school teacher and active union member, Hawkins supports expanding public education from full - day Pre-K through college and increasing state aid to local schools.

Cuomo included $ 75 million in the budget for reform initiatives, including expanding pre-K as well as creating community schools, extending the school day or year, and rewarding high - performing teachers.

Cuomo and the state Education Department recently awarded competitive grant funding to launch or expand pre-K programs in 27 school districts, which will allow thousands more students to begin full - day programs throughout the state.

That would fund both full - day universal pre-K and expanded after - school programs for middle - school students.

During the press conference, de Blasio noted that the State Senate allocated $ 540 million in its budget for his five - year proposal to pay for full - day pre-K for all 4 - year - olds as well as expanded after - school programs.