Reflections on #timechat - Chat with Elena Silva of Education Sector on "More Time for Learning"

The Collaborative for Building After School Systems (CBASS) hosted a chat on "Reimagining the School Day: More Time for Learning," a report from The Wallace Foundation and Education Sector. Education Sector's Elena Silva answered participants' questions about expanded learning time (ELT).  To read the chat in its entirety, search for "#timechat" on Twitter.

Here are some of our favorite Tweets from the chat:

• "@educationsector Teachers are necessary but not enough to make ELT work. We need a staffing strategy for in/out school ELops. #timechat"
• "@educationsector Good partnerships need clear shared goals and expectations, with individual objs, shared data about kids’well being, leaders. #timechat"
• "@summerlearning Without #summerlearning, schools can't address the 2-3 mos of skills lost over school vacation: http://ow.ly/8ET8K #timechat"

To see Boston Beyond's contributions, check out our Twitter.

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Elena was the keynote speaker at our Achieving-Connecting-Thriving Conference, co-hosted by PEAR, in April 2011.  See key insights on shared accountability for learning in Silva's presentation. 

The following publications were cited during the hour to illustrate points and provide examples:

A Fiscal Map of Expanded Learning Time (The After-School Corporation)

Striving for Student Success: A Model of Shared Accountability (Education Sector)

Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Hours of Opportunity, Volume 1: Lessons from Five Cities on Building Systems to Improve After-School, Summer School, and Other Out-of-School-Time Programs (RAND Corporation)

Cincinnati's Fifth Quarter: A Community Organized to Support Summer Learning