Budget recommendations so far offer few clues to the financial future of seven P - 12 programs that target support to Kentucky students with distinctive needs: Extended school services programs that
provide additional instructional time outside the regular school day...
Not exact matches
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.
Board Members also heard updates on several major CCSD projects: the proposed adoption of new
instructional materials for math classes across Grades K - 12, which will
provide teachers with a system of integrated text and online resources that eliminates the need to seek out
additional resources in order to cover all standards and individualize instruction; and the implementation now underway of a new business management system that increases the efficiency of timekeeping, payroll and personnel operations, which will save CCSD
time and money.
Below we review past research on this issue and then describe the new evidence and the
additional insights it
provides into the wisdom of increasing
instructional time for American students.
Tier 2 indicates students who most likely need
additional instructional time beyond that which is
provided during core instruction.
Generally, teachers are not
provided time to hone their craft, nor
time and opportunities to acquire
additional strategies and skills to reinforce their
instructional methods.
Generally, teachers are not
provided time to hone their craft, nor
time and opportunities to acquire
additional strategies and skills reinforce their
instructional methods.
In spite of «busting her butt» to prepare what she considers to be effective
instructional activities for her students and offers to
provide additional help outside of class
time, more than a third of the class received «Ds» and «Fs.»