"Visit the teacher's lounge of any Chicago Public School and it likely
won't be long before someone brings up the issue of extended school
day. By next school year, all Chicago Public Schools will be required to
add more minutes of instruction to their school day -- taking the
district from having one of the shortest school days in the country to
one of the longest. Like all change, this reform has been met with both
resistance and applause. In an era where teachers feel like reforms are
being done to them, and not with them, it is crucial
that the fact that something is "mandated" doesn't detract from the
importance or necessity of these changes.
As a group of charter school teachers, we are already working in
schools with extended days. Some of us have worked in charter schools
that have used the extra time to bring enrichment, differentiation, and
excitement into the curriculum. Others have worked in charter schools
that have made extra time in the school day nothing more than extra
time.
Charter schools are laboratories for experimental ideas, allowing new
ways of teaching to be explored with autonomy from the typical
expectations of the school board. These experiments can pay off, as is
highlighted in documentaries such as Waiting for Superman.
But they can also fail, as evidenced every year when charters are not
renewed. One size never fits all, but from our shared experiences we
have some ideas we hope administrators and teachers bear in mind as they
move toward making their school day longer."
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