Sentences with phrase «to extend the school day»

We are also extending the school day for grades 5 & 6 in the fall.

An academy chain has dropped its plans to extend the school day by 45 minutes, following protests from parents and teachers.

Solutions in the past have included extending the school day, increasing expectations through common standards, and holding schools and educators accountable for student learning through high - stakes tests.

There are practical forms of help, says the report, such as allowing time and space for children to do their homework at school, which could mean extending the school day.

Recent pressure to increase academic achievement has led new educational reform strategies to include ideas on extending the school day.

The dozens of proposals ranged from extending the school day and smaller class sizes to mentorship programs and having school psychologists on based on school sites.

He wants the schools to do more to protect students from the culture of failure, which, he says, may involve extending the school day and implementing weekend and summer programs.

Or would you use it to help extend the school day?

«In addition, we are also reviewing bus timetables with the aim of extending the school day for secondary school pupils.

The collective - bargaining caveat in the M.O.U., she said, «has to do with other, smaller aspects of the plan, like extending school days at turnaround schools, which I am sure we will agree on.»)

Future Academies in Pimlico, central London, which was set up by the academies minister Lord Nash and his wife Caroline, announced plans to extend the school day in March 2016.

Following a longer school year filled with extended school days of rigorous instruction that emphasizes math and literacy skills, Uncommon is starting to see results and kids are beginning to hit benchmarks.

Should that happen, changes at those schools — such as extending the school day, requiring training and making staff changes — could come to a standstill until the issue works its way through the courts.

All three schools offer extended school days.

That was apparent early on when DeSantis extended the school day so teachers had more planning time, cleared schedules so content teachers would not miss instructional meetings and had teachers using the UBD lesson planning format.

Even as policy makers are considering ways to make extended school days, an extended school year, after - school tutoring and multi-tiered interventions financially possible, school leaders must help teachers make maximum use of the time they already have.

But Ashlawn is unusual in extending the school day while also cutting break times.

He says that the charter environment is unique because there is a general commitment to doing whatever it takes to help students succeed, whether that's through extended school days, remediation classes built into the core curriculum, opportunities for advanced learners or even extra support for families.

A pioneer in this effort is Massachusetts, which launched a statewide extended school day program in 2005.

As Houston - area schools continue to recover from Hurricane Harvey, some students still have not returned to their classrooms while still others face extended school days to make up missed time.

Michael Gove's plans to cut school holidays and extend school days suffer a «huge blow» after a body appointed to assess the proposals rejects them.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's education commission recommends extending the school day and school year, as well as all day pre-kindergarten.

After Hackett was put on the list of persistently struggling schools, educators there extended the school day by 42 minutes to include a daily enrichment period for students to meet with teachers.

Simply extending the school day with rote memorization and drill and practice on low - level skills, however, will not increase student learning and may well decrease motivation to learn, and teachers should be paid for working additional time.

Additional cancelations will require extending the school day or year to make up the time.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

Bright IDEA works within normal classroom constraints and does not extend the school day or school year or include extra tutoring or other special services.

For example, case study schools in Maryland really target their extra time on students with the greatest need, while those in Michigan for the most part extend the school day for all students.

Likely due to increased charter autonomy, these schools are able to develop and implement proven strategies — such as extended school days and years; holistic student supports; and competency progression — to give students the education they need and deserve.

The current school calendar is not cutting it, said Elena Rocha, a senior education analyst with the Center for American Progress, who has researched the issue of extended school days.

If the district were to extend the school day at some schools under the state's receivership law, it would have to compensate teachers at their regular hourly rate.

All schools will have considerable autonomy — including control over staffing, the authority to set their own budgets, and the freedom to offer extended school days or longer school years — but will be held accountable for results, and funds will follow students as they choose the schools that best meet their needs.

The Miami - Dade County Public Schools superintendent created a School Improvement Zone three years ago that includes 39 schools with extended school days and years.

I get it that this would likely mean extending the school day by 10 or 15 minutes, and that costs money because then the staff need to be paid for a longer day, but this is the dream wish list, right?

The Florida legislature, meeting in a special two - day session earlier this month, passed a major education - reform bill that, among other things, will create a statewide merit - pay system for teachers and extend the school day so students can take more mathematics and science courses.

Successful policies include extended school days, with an increased emphasis on math and reading help drive performance; common planning time for teachers and data - driven professional development (using formative assessment data to help teachers figure out where students are struggling); the ability to dismiss low - performing teachers; the power to enforce strict codes of conduct and responsibility; and a focus on social / emotional student wellbeing.

The Utica City School District's Board of Education unanimously rejected $ 4.1 million in state funding to extend the school day in five city schools.

They're extending the school day to give kids more opportunities to catch up on what they missed.

On the structural side, they advocate such things as paid parental leave, flextime in the workplace, an extended school day and year, housing subsidies, tougher divorce laws, and welfare benefits favoring two - parent families.

The standards for «school food other than lunch» apply to all food and drink provided to pupils during an extended school day (up to 6 pm).

The obvious solution is to build nutrition and sustainability into food contracts, give principals more autonomy to make smart decisions, and extend the school day so that our fine, fine teachers have enough time to give our kids what they need.

Gove is pressing on with his own agenda this week, with a raft of education announcements including promises to extend the school day to ten hours and enforcing community - service - style litter - picking to improve discipline.

Quite why our report from last year on former education secretary Michael Gove's hopes to extend the school day, attracted your attention we're not sure.

The findings come after plans by Michael Gove to extend school days and cut holidays were rejected by the body appointed to assess them.

The remaining eight schools remain in receivership — the majority under a superintendent receiver who has additional powers, such as the ability to supersede the school board and extend the school day or year — and must continue with their turnaround plans approved by the state.

Replacing a 1950's bureaucracy with a 2020 performance organization, we formed the new New York education reform Commission headed by Dick Parsons, they have done extraordinary work; they have called for a full day Pre-K, extending school days and for performance pay.

The extended school days, part of an expansion of the Middle School Quality Initiative program, will add 150 minutes to each school day for 2,000 children each year over the next three years for «high - dosage reading tutoring and an array of learning activities,» the DOE said.

«Through the expansion of the successful Middle School Quality Initiative and our innovative program to extend the school day and offer intense literacy training to high - needs kids, both students and teachers will soon benefit immensely.»

Michael Gove decided to award all pupils with a permanent after - school detention, forever, by extending the school day.