Tag: California

Guest Post: Students are demonstrating alternative forms of achievement in Build San Francisco program

Posted September 3, 2010

In this guest post Will Fowler, program director at the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco, describes a partnership between AFSF and San Francisco Unified School District to create opportunities to allow students to demonstrate expanded forms of achievement from the usual schoolwork.

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Innovation in Districts

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Achievement, California, Guest Posts, Innovation, Productivity, Technology

The big payoff of the four-day school week: Unplanned innovation?

Posted August 11, 2010

In this budget climate the four-day school week is hot. Districts across the country are moving to it, in an attempt to cut costs. Instead of rethinking school, the four-day week represents a simple continuation of the squeezing of the five-day week. It is not strategic, and in fact decreases productivity - the worst possible outcome.

Yet the onset of the four-day week may have an entirely different effect, releasing students from 20 percent of their obligatory time to instead pursue learning in other areas.

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