Balancing the School Calendar: Perspectives from the Public and StakeholdersCarolyn Kneese, Charles Ballinger Today, educators are looking for ways to utilize classroom time more effectively. Many thoughtful and forward-looking educators have reorganized the school calendar from the traditional nine-month model to one which is more balanced, and they have experienced the effects of calendar modification in the classroom, school, district, and community. Balancing the School Calendar is a compilation of perspectives and research reports from those who have experienced the urgent necessity of reorganizing time to effectuate better learning situations for students. Chapter authors have implemented, studied, or contemplated school calendar change and the results of the change. |
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Part II PERSPECTIVES FROM THE STAKEHOLDERS | 17 |
Combining Structural Change and Transformative Leadership | 19 |
Benefits for Teachers | 44 |
Chapter 07 Report on School and Community Attitudes to Modified School Calendars | 52 |
Part III PRACTICE IN THE VARIOUS MODELS | 75 |
Chapter 09 Effects of Yearround Education on Performance Indicators | 77 |
Chapter 10 Multitracking in School Calendar Reform | 117 |
A Call for Reimagining Continuous Learning | 131 |
A Comprehensive Time Reform Model | 149 |
One Schools Innovative Practices | 164 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 181 |
An Administrators Perspective | 65 |
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