Sentences with phrase «on expanding learning time»

To access more research on expanded learning time, we recommend the NCTL publication The Case for Improving & Expanding Time in School: A Review of Key Research & Practice.

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The passion for the business and the amount of ongoing learning that goes on works to expand the circle over time.

I knew it was going to be a time for learning and mastering new things, expanding my horizons and opening doors I'd never even dared to knock on before.

* 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

Expanding the Therapeutic Window for Treatment As PI at MSM, Ford takes what he learned during his training and applies it to stroke — caused by blockage or rupturing of arterial blood flow leading to or in the brain — and atherosclerosis — hardening of arteries over time due to fat - deposit build - up on their inner lining — research.

We will be starting with some focused studies in metastatic breast cancer and expanding over time based on what we learn from you.

This is a great way to expand your horizons and learn more about your fellow man on a one date at a time basis.

Cooper kept his life well - balanced, however, spending time teaching acting to inner - city children through the Learning through the Expanded Arts Program and taking a job as host of the Discovery Channel show Extreme Treks in a Wild World, which took him on journeys to Peru and British Colombia.

Tutorials and practice mode are expanded to help novices like me learn a bit, including a neat mode that helps with timing by shading the fighters either blue or red to help you learn timing on offense and defense.

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.

«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.

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 effectivenTime (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 effectiventime to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

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.

At HEAF, we've had students expand their critical thinking skills by rewriting the endings to well - known stories; publishing their writing on a student blog; conducting research as they learned to collect, analyze and report on data; engaging in civics and current events by running their own political campaigns during election time; and planning and producing their own films on class topics.

Expanded learning time (ELT) teachers report having time to cover material in greater depth, discuss and reflect on lessons, and connect concepts in different classes.

National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL)- Nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educaTime & Learning (NCTL)- Nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded eLearning (NCTL)- Nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded elearning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educatime to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education

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 school year.

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.

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.

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.»

Instead of offering a full - time program that drew students away from traditional settings, the program focused on filling curricular gaps and expanding access to additional courses and learning opportunities.

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 in life.

Does the expanded time focus on broadening and deepening students» knowledge and understanding of curricular topics and engagement in learning?

Teach for America trainers defend the program's reliance on «no excuses» discipline, saying it is the fastest way for corps members to learn to control a classroom, and that they are free to expand their disciplinary toolkit as their practice improves over time.

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

The Time Collaborative, a joint effort of the Ford Foundation and the National Center on Time and Learning, advances a Broader, Bolder Approach through efforts in five states to demonstrate how expanding and redesigning...

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).

«Technology can expand access and opportunity — from students being able to learn from an expert geologist on the other side of the country through online learning platforms, to teachers being able to get real — time results on students» learning progress.

In 2011, representatives of Meriden's union and management team were invited by the American Federation of Teachers to attend a conference organized by the National Center on Time & Learning — a Boston - based nonprofit devoted to researching and supporting expanded - learning - time initiatiTime & Learning — a Boston - based nonprofit devoted to researching and supporting expanded - learning - time initLearning — a Boston - based nonprofit devoted to researching and supporting expanded - learning - time initlearning - time initiatitime initiatives.

Time for Teachers: Leveraging Expanded Learning Time To Strengthen Instruction and Empower Teachers: National Center on Time and Learning report on how highly effective schools have used six practices to expand learning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teachersesTime for Teachers: Leveraging Expanded Learning Time To Strengthen Instruction and Empower Teachers: National Center on Time and Learning report on how highly effective schools have used six practices to expand learning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teacheLearning Time To Strengthen Instruction and Empower Teachers: National Center on Time and Learning report on how highly effective schools have used six practices to expand learning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teachersesTime To Strengthen Instruction and Empower Teachers: National Center on Time and Learning report on how highly effective schools have used six practices to expand learning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teachersesTime and Learning report on how highly effective schools have used six practices to expand learning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teacheLearning report on how highly effective schools have used six practices to expand learning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teachelearning time, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teachersestime, including assessment charts schools can use for each practice http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/time4teachersestime4teacherses.pdf

A southern California high school increased its on - time graduation rate by 28 % over 4 years attributed to Expanded Learning opportunities.

BART was featured in an article published by the Wallace Foundation on our arts program and extended learning time, part of the Foundation and Mass 2020's efforts to expand learning time at the state and national levels.

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

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.

Currently, schools with expanded learning time add, on average, 25 percent more time each year; 20 percent of such schools have lengthened the school year as well.

With few long - term studies offering conclusive results, however, the bottom line for districts considering a four - day schedule is to proceed with caution, says Jennifer Davis, Co-Founder and President of the National Center on Time and Learning (NCTL), an organization dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educatTime and Learning (NCTL), an organization dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edLearning (NCTL), an organization 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.

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 opportunitieslearning, 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 opportunitieslearning 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.&ratime 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.&raTime 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 opportunitiesLearning 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 opportunitieslearning 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.&ratime 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.»

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Massachusetts 2020 recently released the 2010 - 2011 Update on the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative.

In March 2014, The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) launched Strengthening Science in Expanded - Time Schools, an innovative project to expand and enhance STEM instruction aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in expanded - time schoTime & Learning (NCTL) launched Strengthening Science in Expanded - Time Schools, an innovative project to expand and enhance STEM instruction aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in expanded - time Expanded - Time Schools, an innovative project to expand and enhance STEM instruction aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in expanded - time schoTime Schools, an innovative project to expand and enhance STEM instruction aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in expanded - time expanded - time schotime schools.

(The Tulsa district's work on refining the principal supervisors» role is supported, in part, by the Wallace Foundation, which also supports the coverage of leadership, arts education, and extended - and expanded - learning time in Education Week.)

Expanding learning - time programs that focus with all good intentions on remediation and tutoring, but that extend traditional school structures into afterschool time, may experience weak attendance and missed opportunities because these efforts are too often disconnected from the rich learning lives of today's youth.

In a digital age in which technology is a central part of kids» lives, leaders in the expanded learning - time movement need to embrace a «mind shift» so that the United States can make dramatic progress by building a system of expanded digital learning, one based on pragmatic changes that acknowledge the ways learning is happening in the 21st century.

The principles offered below are based on an examination of three exemplary innovators in expanded learning time: the YouMedia network, spearheaded by the Chicago Public Library; Global Kids, an afterschool leadership organization based in New York City; and the Computer Clubhouse network, which was developed originally by the MIT Media Lab and now includes approximately 100 community centers in over 20 countries (Kafai, Peppler, & Chapman, 2009).

Expanded learning time initiatives, including afterschool and summer programs, should help lead our nation out of its narrow educational mindset by promoting communities in which children and youth are positioned as «makers and creators,» based on what they are passionate about.

The number of expanded - time schools has doubled over the past two years, according to an updated report from the National Center on Time and Learning and Education Commission of the Statime schools has doubled over the past two years, according to an updated report from the National Center on Time and Learning and Education Commission of the StaTime and Learning and Education Commission of the States.

At the time, MariAnne was a member of the Book Club Plus node of the Teachers Learning Collaborative where we focused on expanding Book Club to serve the needs of struggling readers.

As massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to expand and online academic institutions gain more credibility, the education landscape is breaking away from long - time learning traditions — on - campus classrooms and printed textbooks — to provide alternatives.