By June 2017, the staff at Village Elementary will
increase academic learning time by reducing the number of office discipline referrals from 360 to less than 30.
Improve efficiency in the use of educational resources (e.g., open educational resources that
increase academic learning time via text)
Do unresolved behavior issues keep you awake at night thinking about what strategies might enhance responsible decision making and
increase academic learning time?
Thus, principals need to take responsibility for
increasing academic learning time by modeling positive behaviors.
Research promotes a three - pronged approached to Increased Learning Time that includes the following elements: (a)
increased academic learning time; (b) increased enrichment activities; (c) and increased teacher collaboration and professional development.
Not exact matches
The Massachusetts Expanded
Learning Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiven
Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more
time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiven
time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to
academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will
increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.
Changes to the existing education system to provide greater flexibility: Under the Act, student
learning time in core
academic subjects
increased to a mandatory six and a half hours each school day (recess and study hall no longer counted).
At the same
time, the need for professional development is
increasing as many educators are implementing new
academic standards and aligned assessments that demand deeper
learning from students.
The principal focused on retaining and hiring effective teachers, implemented data - based decision making,
increased learning time, and concentrated on family engagement to significantly
increase academic achievement.
In an essay published in the New York Nonprofit Press, Lucy N. Friedman describes how the ELT / NYC initiative is showing the way toward a seamless
learning day that
increases academic time, but also brings rigor and structure to enrichments such as arts and science.
Academic outcomes resulting from social and emotional
learning include greater motivation to
learn and commitment to school,
increased time devoted to schoolwork and mastery of subject matter, improved attendance, graduation rates, grades, and test scores.