Chip Wood boldly confronts the epidemic of busyness in our nation's K–8 schools. He shows how changing the way we use time will transform our schools from the "fact factories" they have become into the democratic communities of learning which they can and should be, schools in which the pace of the day encourages investigation, contemplation, completion, and community.

Features:

• Highly practical strategies for creating time in the school day for reflection, deeper dialogue, more rigorous academics, and more meaningful social interactions
• Guidelines for making changes in how time is structured and used in the classroom
• Guidelines for making changes at the administrative and political level

This book tackles one of the most complex and often corrosive influences on education—the use of time. Chip Wood goes way beyond the simplistic "more time on task" solutions and offers teachers and administrators meaningful ways to transform the quality of teaching and learning for all children.

—Jennifer Richard Jacobson, teacher and author of
How Is My First Grader Doing in School?

Paperback, 336 pages

$24

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