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Making Better Use of Instructional Assistants After evaluating the school's expenditures, Horace Mann Elementary's leadership team changed resource allocations to more effectively use instructional assistants. In the past, many of the assistants spent more time making copies, grading papers, and putting up bulletin boards than helping students. To make better use of time and resources, the leadership team decided to assign one instructional assistant to do all of the copying, laminating, and so on. This enabled the team to decrease the total number of assistant hours. They increased training for the assistants, focusing their time during the language arts period to improve instruction and student results. Assistants are now assigned to classrooms for different amounts of time based on student need. They meet regularly with a teacher specialist to discuss their responsibilities and how they can best support students and teachers in the classroom. Many of the assistants have taken advantage of this training and gone on to become credentialed teachers at Horace Mann. And with money saved on instructional assistant time, the school was able to hire a teacher specialist who focuses on data and assessment. Read SchoolsMovingUp’s full profile of Horace Mann Elementary School
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