The shift adds 20-25 minutes of instruction a day, totaling about 64 hours a year. Contracts with parents and students. The contracts also seek commitments that students attend daily and parents meet regularly with teachers. More adults in classrooms. Instructional assistants, interns and teachers who act as coaches assist teachers in all classrooms.
Teachers emphasize themes, relating lessons in one academic subject to others.
Well, it doesn't work that way. We need to energize them more and show them how what they learn relates to the real world. For example, a math lesson on volume wouldn't include spheres, cones and cylinders until late in the year because proficiency exams cover only volume of cubes and boxes. Up to the challenge Seventh-grader Donald Garrett of Mount Auburn said he wanted more rigorous studies after getting serious about school. I want to be a doctor, so I should be in the right grade.