Time to Teach, Time to Learn: Changing the Pace of School

Chip Wood boldly confronts the epidemic of busy-ness 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