For years, Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School was plagued by low student achievement and high staff turnover. Then, in 2010, with an expanded school schedule made possible with federal funding, Orchard Gardens began a remarkable turnaround.
David A. Farbman, David J. Goldberg, & Tiffany D. Miller
Redesigning and Expanding School Time to Support Common Core Implementation looks at how high-performing expanded-time schools give teachers more time for ongoing professional development and collaboration needed to implement the Common Core standards.
Claire Kaplan, Roy Chan, David Farbman, & Ami Novoryta
Time for Teachers examines 17 high-performing and fast-improving schools around the country that have taken advantage of expanded school schedules to provide teachers with more time to collaborate.
Claire Kaplan, David Farbman, Sharon Deich, & Heather Clapp Padgette
Financing Expanded Learning Time in Schools presents an in-depth look at how five district expanded-time schools leverage federal, state and local funding to fund the additional time.
Web-based Tool
The CTAT is a web-based observation tool that helps individual teachers understand how they are using time in their classrooms, and helps schools identify and capture effective time management strategies across classrooms.
David Farbman, Dennie Palmer Wolf & Diane Sherlock
Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded School Day, presents case studies of five schools utilizing the longer student and teacher days to prioritize time for arts education.
Mapping the Field: A Report on Expanded-Time Schools in America, identifies 1,002 expanded-time schools across the United States, up from 655 schools identified the last time NCTL issued the report, in 2009 - an increase of 53 percent. These 1,002 schools serve 520,000 students, up from 300,000 in the 2009 report.
Web-based Tool
A few minutes here and there each day add up. If your school schedules 30 minutes for transitions daily, that totals nearly three weeks of school each year. How is time allocated in your schedule? Use this tool to find out, and spark some interesting conversations with your staff.
