Making Choices to Prioritize Learning Time for Students

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Presenters

Ben Lummis (Primary)

Vice President
National Center on Time & Learning


Sarah Gallagher

Program Associate
National Center on Time & Learning


Description

Do you wonder how districts, unions, and schools can collaborate to create innovative time and prioritize expanded learning time for students?

Budgets, staffing, and negotiated agreements don’t have to place strict limits on the length of the school day. In this third session of our webinar series on expanded learning time, Ben Lummis, Vice President for the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) and Sarah Gallagher, Program Associate at NCTL will share a framework for flexibly thinking about resources to maximize the length of your school day. They will discuss strategies which have allowed expanded time schools to stretch their resources and gain additional learning time for students while staying within their budgets and abiding by their contracts. Some strategies that will be explored are:

  • leveraging partnerships

  • use of technology

  • adjusting staff schedules
The other webinars in this series are listed below and on a flyer for this series. During our SchoolsMovingUp interactive webinars, participants have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the information being presented both with the presenters and with each other via the text chat.

This webinar series is hosted by SchoolsMovingUp in partnership with the National Center for Time and Learning.

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This webinar was presented on May 12, 2011 and is now archived

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From WestEd.org

Making Time Count

"The key to increasing achievement is not necessarily more time in school but maximizing the amount of academic learning time." —from the WestEd Policy Brief

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