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1.10 Time Leadership ensures that time is allocated and protected to focus on curricular and instructional issues. 
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Related Resources Articles NEW! Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar This report focuses on cost-effective strategies to expand learning time. Multiple vignettes and examples are provided throughout the document. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National Center on Time and Learning Making Math Count: Problem-Solving Time This article discusses how creating time for problem-solving discussions can increase student learning. Author: Katie Gurule Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Making Time Count Drawing from an earlier WestEd research report, "Improving Student Achievement by Extending School: Is It Just a Matter of Time," which describes the connections between time spent in school and student learning, this WestEd Policy Brief teases out the policy implications of that research and makes policy recommendations aimed at both the state and local levels. Author: Julie Aronson, Joy Zimmerman, and Lisa Carlos Publisher: WestEd Never Enough Hours in the Class Day This newspaper article describes how one school was able to trim wasted minutes to increase time on task. Author: Eleanor Chute Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Out-of-School Time Reading Programs This article discusses ways to increase time for reading programs concerning at-risk kids. Author: Kirsten Miller, David Snow and Patricia Lauber Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Adlit.org School Design: Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money This guide offers research on the effective allocation of talent, time, and money and the causes of misalignment between resource allocation and strategic goals. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies Some Classroom Management Tips This article by master teacher, Judi Fenton, provides management tips for a more efficient and productive classroom. Author: Judi Fenton Publisher: Teachers Network Time & Attention in Urban High Schools This publication provided ways to improve time and attention practices across whole systems of urban high schools. Author: Stephen Frank Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies Time: It's Made, Not Found This article discusses the importance of making time for staff development and describes several ways to find time. It includes a strategy for creating a 15-hour block of time for staff training and/or planning. Author: Stephen Barkley Publication Date: Fall 1999 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Useful Links What are Curriculum Maps? This webpage provides an overview of the curriculum mapping process. Publisher: Partners in Learning Other Resources Great Staff Meetings: Pointers from the Principals Who Lead Them Running an effective staff meeting is the first key to sharing data and test scores to inform instruction. This article provides strategies to get your staff meetings up and running. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Education World Managing Instructional Time Chapter 2 of The Key Elements of Classroom Management: Managing Time and Space, Student Behavior, and Instructional Strategies describes the daily schedules commonly used at different school levels (elementary, middle, high school) and how to maximize instructional time within these schedules. Note: The book is available for purchase from the ASCD Web site. Use the URL above to locate the book. Author: Joyce McLeod, Jan Fisher, and Ginny Hoover Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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