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Banking Time At many schools, teachers touch base in the hallways, at lunch, or after school, but they do not have meaningful time during their workday to share classroom problems and compare instructional notes. To improve professional development, school staff at California’s Martin Luther King Elementary School in El Centro, created a schedule that provides them with regular time each week for grade-level meetings, whole-staff professional development, and teacher study groups. They created this opportunity by "banking" time -- adding instructional minutes to each day, so that every Thursday morning the students come to school one hour later. The extra hour has allowed staff to participate together in training on key schoolwide goals such as learning how to better use student performance data to improve teaching and learning. This formal time for collaboration was a marked change. Teachers at King cite it as one of the most powerful elements of their improvement effort. Administrative business during the collaboration time is kept to a minimum. Instead, teachers review student work, analyze data, plan lessons and receive training, mostly in grade level teams. Professional development has come to mean professional reading, dialog, and analysis of student work and data, all focused on the school goal of strengthening student literacy. Read SchoolsMovingUp’s full profile of Martin Luther King School. SchoolsMovingUp has also profiled the following schools that bank time: Horace Mann Elementary School Merced Elementary School Anderson Elementary School Martha Baldwin School Carson Street Elementary School
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