The TIME Collaborative Creating Schools with More & Better Learning Time

1. The TIME CollaborativeCreating Schools with More & Better Learning Time Session 5 – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

2. Do Now THE “BUILD SOMETHING, ANYTHING” DO NOW DO NOW • BUILDING MATERIALS • Index Cards • Tape • The space and furniture around you • DIRECTIONS • Use index cards and tape and build a structure at your table • RULES • There are none • Just build something • TEAMS WILL BE HONORED FOR • The Tallest • The most creative use of materials • Sturdiest

3. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

4. Today’s Objectives • Continue re-engineering with your school team and learn from other schools’ iterations • Build on your first iteration and experiment with your next ones • Build a deeper understanding of blended learning and partnerships(through optional workshops) • Learn about final plan submission and process

5. Keeping Track of It All Choose Roles Scribe = Blue Focuser = Red Timekeeper = Yellow Throughout the day, your scribe can take notes for your team

6. GOAL: Develop a High-Quality, Sustainable New School Day Build on your first iteration Share bold, creative ideas Improve your iterations

7. Experimenting with New Ideas Creativity and Play

8. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

9. Sharing and Learning from Our Iterations 1 Assign two people to present your school’s iteration (Talkers) Talkers Elem 2 The remaining members of your team (Travelers) will count off. ELEMENTARY: 1 – 3 MIDDLE : Everyone else is a traveler 1 2 3 Middle All travel to other middle school 3 Each Traveler will go to one school to learn the iteration from a different school’s Talker 1 1 1

10. ACTIVITY: Travelers and Talkers Talkers Walk through a summary of your school’s first iteration(10 min) • Highlight priorities, key implications and major changes • Identify important questions and/or challenges • Explain/show how you team has built understanding and buy-in for this iteration • Travelers can use the note taker to track ideas and questions Travelers Ask clarifying questions (10 min) • Clarify the major components of the iteration • Focus on the big picture Generate new ideas and problem-solve (20 min) Travelers • Use the Talker’s iteration as a jumping-off point to come up with new ideas and problem-solve common challenges • Ask open-ended questions: “What if…” Talkers • Use note takers to track ideas you want to bring back to your team

11. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

12. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

13. Team Work Time Goal: Build on your first iteration to experiment and create a new and improved version Questions to Consider: What did we learn from other schools that will help us create our next iteration? What do we want to try next in our iteration?

14. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

15. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

16. Building your Next Iteration and Learning More In the next hour, you can… Continue building on your first iteration to create a new and improved version or, some team members can… • Attend optional workshops on how to: • Integrate technology into your new school day • Integrate partners into your new school day

17. Today’s Agenda – Re-engineering Your School Day and Year

18. Final Plan Template • Asks schools to synthesize and document “final” plan for next year • Pulls together your plans to date on the Essential Elements, sustainable strategies, and the time requirements • Requires submission of sample schedules for both students and teachers

19. Final Plan Submission and Review Process Now-Early March March-Early April Mid-April Mid-April-May Re-engineering Continues Deciding on a Final Iteration to Present at Session 6; Presenting 4/4 Finalizing and Submitting Plan (4/16) to Review Committee Final Plans Reviewed and Approved for TIME Collaborative Implementation Support and Coaching from NCTL

20. Final Plan Submission and Review Process Mid-April-May March-Early April Final Plans Reviewed and Approved for TIME Collaborative Implementation Now-Early March Mid-April Re-engineering Continues Deciding on a Final Iteration to Present at Session 6; Presenting 4/4 Finalizing and Submitting Plan (4/16) to Review Committee • Review of plans by external committee; will include reps from state DOEs, foundations, leading education orgs, ELT practitioners, and NCTL • Approval for TIME Collaborative implementation only for plans meeting standards for quality and sustainability, and all time requirements • District leaders will make final decisions on which schools of those approved by the committee will move forward into full TIME Collaborative implementation Support and Coaching from NCTL

21. What does it mean to be a TIME Collaborative School? • Plan meets NCTL’s standards for quality, sustainability, and time; TIME Collaborative scoring rubric shared prior to Session 6 • Participation in NCTL’s ELT implementation support in SY13-14 no cost to school or district • Eligibility for a 2nd year of capacity-building funds in SY13-14 • Inclusion in multi-state TIME Collaborative network and full access to implementation resources • Opportunities to be highlighted as a national leader in efforts to expand the school day/year

22. What Stood Out For You? • Think of an “aha!” moment that happened for you today and with whom you will share it back at school • Think of a “shout-out”to recognize one of your team members or another school team We’ll share “aha!” moments and “shout-outs” before we leave today.

23. Your Next Steps By Session 6, your team must: • 1. Continue re-engineering • Experiment with several iterations, working towards your completed staffing and scheduling iteration • Meet with district leaders and your NCTL coach to share your redesign plan, consider flexibilities needed, and discuss cost implications • 2. Begin to prepare your final plan • You’ll receive guidance on your Session 6 team presentation next week, as well as a copy of the final plan scoring rubric • Implementation Plan template distributed today • 3. Communicate your priorities and build support for your plan • Integrate your completed Building Support template into your outreach efforts and materials • Share iterations with key stakeholders

24. Resources for Next Steps Planning • Complete the Building Support Template,Next Steps Planner and use your Planning Calendar to identify action steps • All resources from today’s session can be found at www.timeandlearning.org /massachusetts

25. What Stood Out For You? • Your “aha!” moment and with whom you will share it back at school • A “shout-out”to recognize one of your team members or another school team

26. Session 5 Evaluations Please fill out and return your evaluations!