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Learn about the MBLT Initiative in Nashville, Tennessee that aims to reinvent public schools through more learning time in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. Discover the four stages of implementation and how to create and sustain conditions for more and better learning time. Explore indicators for ensuring access and preparing students for college, career, and civic life. Find out how to scale up this initiative to make more and better learning time the "new normal."
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MBLT Indicators Framework Education Writers Association Nashville, Tennessee May 20, 2014 Michelle Renée, Ph.D. Principal Associate
MBLT Initiative Goal “To reinvent public schools through more and better learning time in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, so that students are prepared equitably for college, career, and civicparticipation.”
Four Stages of Implementation Creating and Sustaining the Conditions for More and Better Learning Time Ensuring Access to More and Better Learning Time Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life Scaling Up: Making More and Better Learning Time the “New Normal”
1. Creating and Sustaining the Conditions for More and Better Learning Time Creating positive school climate; building ownership, engagement of teachers, family, and community Districts create supportive policy and structures; provide leadership and funding to ensure success Resources reallocated and/or targeted to support local MBLT ecosystems
1. Creating and Sustaining the Conditions for MBLTIndicator: Targeted Fiscal Resources
2. Ensuring Access to More and Better Learning Time Indicators: Access to More Time; Support Services • Understanding how structures and strategies can facilitate (or impede) student opportunity, development, and agency • Ensuring students have agency in determining how their time is spent • Expanding learning time and using it successfully; providing teachers and educators time for collaboration
2. Ensuring Access to More and Better Learning TimeIndicator: Identifying and Minimizing Time DistractorsUCLA IDEA Table from: Rogers and Mirra (2014). Cracks in the Hourglass. AERA 2014.
3. Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life Acquiring 21st century skills and knowledge needed for the next educational level Engaging in learning in and out of school Engaged in activities and behaviors that ensure health and well-being
3. Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life Example of Using Multiple Indicators James Irvine Foundation. 2014 Snapshot: Linked Learning in Motion.
4. Scaling Up: Making More and Better Learning Time the “New Normal” MBLT models are successful across multiple schools, districts, and states Partner organizations are meaningfully engaged across the ecosystem Systemic equity is reached
More and Better Learning TimeIndicators Project Contact Information Email: Michelle_Renee@brown.edu Website: http://annenberginstitute.org/project/more-and-better-learning-time-initiative