Perhaps the best evidence comes from a recent study in Minnesota, which estimated that increasing the number
of instructional days from 175 to 200 would cost close to $ 1,000 per student, in a state where the median per - pupil expenditure is about $ 9,000.
Not exact matches
Counseling
of this variety is very different
from what is often meant by «pre-marital counseling» — i.e., one to three
instructional interviews preceding the wedding by a few
days or weeks.
Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the
day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their famili
day, including the building
of an in - school,
instructional kitchen, «Five a
Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their famili
Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables
from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.
Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity
of 1,600 students (an increase
of 400
from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration
of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes
of instructional time each
day, compared to an elementary schedule.
«With tardy students entering the school
day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large number
of cumulative
instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away
from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.
Lessons are short - term
instructional plans that take anywhere
from a part
of a
day to multiple
days of instruction.
The challenge comes in isolating the causal effect
of a longer school
day or year
from the effects
of other characteristics
of schools and school systems that offer more
instructional time.
Our studies use variation
from one year to the next in snow or the number
of instructional days cancelled due to bad weather to explain changes in each school's test scores over time.
Figure 1 compares the magnitude
of the effect
of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn
from other high - quality studies
of the impact
of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.
While our studies use data
from different states and years, and employ somewhat different statistical methods, they yield very similar results on the value
of additional
instructional days for student performance.
Data
from a survey
of principals that the study administered found that
instructional time was lower by about an hour a week in both subjects, about twelve minutes a
day.
Shifting away
from slide - based eLearning toward techniques such as storytelling and gamification, and designing for mobile learning, microlearning, video, and VR / AR, means rapid change in the
day - to -
day work
of an
Instructional Designer.
Academic Gains, Double the #
of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018
Days in the Life: The Work
of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School —
Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve
Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds
of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth
of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success
of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning
from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
IEPs create the broad structure
from which educators can develop a more detailed and practical
day - to -
day instructional plan for students with all kinds
of disabilities.
Despite different findings on kindergarten's long - term effect on student achievement or how full -
day programs differ
from half -
day in terms
of quality and instruction, the issue remains that the amount
of instructional time kindergarteners receive varies considerably
from state to state, and district to district.
The articles in this issue
of Principal magazine begin with grit, but go on to address the breadth
of instructional decisions school leaders make each
day,
from curating a library collection to hiring and retaining diverse staff to integrating culturally responsive and art - infused teaching.
This year we have adopted a continuing education course model, in which teachers come to regular meetings
of a supportive group, either at the university or in a community facility, requiring them to detach
from their
instructional day before beginning.
Another publication
from the International Center for Leadership in Education provides
instructional strategies for all grade levels and subject areas, along with hundreds
of brief «D - moment» activities that build and reinforce high rigor and relevance within the classroom every
day.
She finds these moments
of connection each and every
day: in the high - fives and hugs she gets monitoring drop - off outside every morning;
from teachers who share
instructional success stories around a strategy they've been working on; when a student asks her to sit and read together at lunch; and brainstorming with her fellow Remick leaders on a new way to support teachers more fully.
Roles like mentor teacher, master teacher, and
instructional coach provide the infrastructure for teachers to collaborate and for new or struggling teachers to learn
from experienced, high - performing peers.50 In some schools and districts, teachers in leadership roles have distinct responsibilities outside
of the classroom — including coaching and providing administrative support — while allowing them to continue teaching students for part
of the
day.
Levinson explained that because students don't physically appear before a teacher each
day, instead logging onto their computers
from home to access
instructional materials and lessons, requiring the recording and reporting
of daily student attendance doesn't make sense for virtual online charter schools.
Following each
day of instruction with an evening coaching session
from Insight's executive coach, Jason Culbertson, drove us to reflect on our practice and our specific
instructional moves so we could adjust and roll out improvements in the next
day's session.
Question: Can charter schools reduce the number
of instructional days they offer
from 175 to 170 and still receive full apportionment?
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