Entries tagged with: Academic Time

School DesignSchool Design:
Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money

ERS, October 2010

See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.

Tags: school systems, tough times, resource allocation, teaching effectiveness, school design, professional development, per pupil spending, human capital, schools, strategic designs, teaching, accountability, school size, instructional systems, academic time

The Strategic SchoolThe Strategic School:
Making the Most of People, Time, and Money

by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008

Learn how schools can best use the resources they already have.

Tags: school systems, tough times, resource allocation, teaching effectiveness, school design, professional development, per pupil spending, human capital, schools, strategic designs, teaching, accountability, school size, instructional systems, academic time

Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools

Read the nine detailed case studies that helped inform the report: Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools.

Tags: teaching effectiveness, school design, professional development, per pupil spending, schools, strategic designs, teaching, school size, academic time

Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools

by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
ERS, 2008

This report illustrates how nine high performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing their resources strategically to best meet their students’ most pressing needs.

Tags: school systems, teaching effectiveness, school design, professional development, per pupil spending, schools, strategic designs, teaching, school size, academic time

Time & Attention in Urban High Schools:
Lessons for Urban School Systems

by Stephen Frank
ERS, April 2010

ERS, with the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), released a paper that documents how six urban school districts structure time compared to nine Leading Edge high schools.

Tags: school systems, school design, schools, strategic designs, academic time

Five Case Studies on Revising School Schedules

by Regis Shields
New American Schools, 2005

This article provides examples for principals and school leaders of approaches by five K-8 schools in Boston and Cincinnati that have reorganized schedules to allow for common planning time and literacy blocks.

Tags: school systems, school design, schools, strategic designs, academic time