Sentences with phrase «of lengthening the school day»

When we start to solve schooling issues from the position of lengthening the school day, we will create more problems than solutions because that time and money will have to be cut from something else.

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Lengthening the school day should not have been a priority in a time of fiscal...

Emanuel has made lengthening the school day at Chicago Public Schools a cornerstone of his first months in office.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

The initiatives outlined in the plan include lengthening the school day and year, implementation of a statewide teacher contract, consolidation of school districts, and increasing needs - based financial aid in the 2010 budget.

«Not just lengthening the school day, but a wide variety of afterschool activities: drama, art, sports, chess, debate, academic enrichment.

There is no conceivable downside to lengthening learning time by wasting less of the school day.

Paul Vallas, who as superintendent of the RSD since 2007 has lengthened both the school day and the school year, sees technical as well as political reasons why charters are here to stay.

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

In response, one may want the school day or year to lengthen, and many good schools, especially those serving disadvantaged students, have striven to enlarge their portion of children's lives.

More than half the parents polled, or 58 percent, said they did not approve of officials lengthening the school day, but more than one - third thought it was a good idea.

«Specifically, when faced with increased accountability pressure, schools appear to focus on low - performing students, lengthen the amount of time devoted to instruction, adopt different ways of organizing the day and learning environment of the students and teachers, increase resources available to teachers, and decrease principal control,» the study said.

The school day was lengthened by an hour, classes were restructured, teachers were given a period every day to plan and collaborate, and counseling was provided to students, most of whom had experienced gun violence, homelessness or addiction.

@Desertdiva1: I think what you really mean is to get rid of tenure and collective bargaining so that districts can lengthen the school day and school year without paying staff additional salary for the additional work.

musiclady wrote: I think what you really mean is to get rid of tenure and collective bargaining so that districts can lengthen the school day and school year without paying staff additional salary for the additional work.

With its lengthened school day and school year, by the end of the 8th grade, Success Academy graduates receive the equivalent of two extra years of instruction.

As a Renew School, Quitman Street School was afforded the ability to hire new teaching staff, gain substantial infusions of technology and lengthen the schooSchool, Quitman Street School was afforded the ability to hire new teaching staff, gain substantial infusions of technology and lengthen the schooSchool was afforded the ability to hire new teaching staff, gain substantial infusions of technology and lengthen the schoolschool day.

Aimed at high - poverty, underperforming schools, the Center for American Progress defines expanded learning time as the lengthening of the school day, school week, or school year for all students in a given school by approximately 25 percent to 30 percent — the equivalent of roughly two hours per day, or between 300 and 360 hours per year.

When expanded learning time is implemented as a complete redesign of the school day and lengthens the amount of time all students spend in school, more students will have opportunities to fully participate in enrichment activities.

Other options include lengthening of the school day and / or school year or more selective hiring and better training of teachers in those schools with high percentages of students in need of accelerated progress.

Rather than lengthening the school day, which exhausts young children and deprives older children of the opportunity to engage in extracurricular activities and sports, a better alternative is to provide targeted, enriched learning activities, especially in the summer.

The Liberian Ministry of Education planned to disrupt the status quo in Liberian classrooms by 1) lengthening the school day; 2) reducing class sizes; 3) holding teachers accountable for attendance; and 4) tackling the issue of teacher literacy.

Election - to - Work agreements have been used in a variety of school districts around the nation, including in New Haven, to promote pilot projects that lengthen the school day or year or outline duties and obligations that administrators and teachers have beyond those in the standard contract.

Part of what's key about this new project, however, is not just lengthening the school day or year, but doing it in innovative ways that could reshape the structure of the school day, and how teachers and students think about learning.

The negative effect that absences have on achievement suggests that lengthening the school day or year will not necessarily have the desired effect of raising student performance, but that policies to improve attendance might help.