Before considering the recommendations below, we recommend that toolkit users first read the introduction explaining why time matters for improving teacher working conditions and student learning conditions.



Recommendation One:

Structure the school day to allow sufficient time for direct planning, productive collaboration with colleagues, and overlapping time for mentors and mentees, all embedded within the school day. - Resources for related strategies

 


Recommendation Two:

To the greatest extent possible, protect teachers from non-essential duties that interfere with teaching by creating a system that allows community members, administrators, or other qualified adults to assume some of the extra-curricular duties traditionally performed by teachers. - Resources for related strategies

 


Recommendation Three:

Structure the school/district calendar to allow for meaningful professional development activities embedded throughout the school year. - Resources for related strategies

 


Recommendation Four:  

Create school processes and infrastructure that are responsive to teacher concerns about time and other impediments that limit available time to meet the educational needs of all students (class size and student loads). - Resources for related strategies

 


Throughout these recommendations, you will see resources represented as three distinct categories:

 

"Seeing It Work" represents real world examples of actual schools and communities implementing the reform strategies prescribed in the toolkit.
"Action Tool" represents a specific strategy, checklist of items to address, plan for immediate activity or targeted instruction on how to implement reform around teacher working conditions.
"Knowledge Tool" represents background research, academic studies, or relevant articles that may inform your work and help you better understand the broader context for your work on teacher working conditions.
 
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