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Shields, Carolyn M.; Oberg, Steven Lynn – 2000
Year-round schooling is a form of educational restructuring designed either to increase efficiency by enabling a district to accommodate more pupils without providing new buildings or to modify the school year to improve both academic and nonacademic outcomes. The main forms of year-round schooling include the single-track calendar and multi-track…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Year, Program Effectiveness, School Schedules
Peer reviewedShields, Carolyn M.; Oberg, Steven Lynn; LaRocque, Linda J. – Journal of School Leadership, 1999
Explores district leaders' roles in implementing a year-round schooling reform. Examines experiences of four Florida districts, stressing social, political, and fiscal contexts. Leaders promote innovation by acting humanely and openly, and by eschewing unfulfillable promises. Creating widespread support, being flexible, and crafting a climate for…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedShields, Carolyn M.; Oberg, Steven Lynn – Canadian Journal of Education, 2000
Studied the site-based design and implementation of a modified year-round calendar in two Ontario, Canada, elementary schools. These case studies show the importance of choice and voice in the change process. Interviews with a superintendent, the 2 principals, 31teachers, and a number of parents show the large impact a small structural change may…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedShields, Carolyn M.; LaRocque, Linda J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Studies in three Canadian schools indicate that implementation of a year-round school calendar served as a catalyst for innovations in teaching and learning and for school-level capacity-building by facilitating teachers' planning, formal and informal talk about teaching and learning, team teaching, philosophically-based programmatic changes, and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Download full textShields, Carolyn M. – 1996
This paper presents findings of a study that examined the impact of year-round education on academic achievement in a large Utah school district. Student-achievement data for years 1990-95 were compared by type of school schedule. A case-study component examined the impact of school schedules used by two elementary schools--one adhered to a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Efficiency, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationShields, Carolyn M.; LaRocque, Linda J. – 1996
This paper reviews research literature on year-round schools (YRS) for the British Columbia Ministry of Education. The literature review is organized around the goals of the British Columbia Ministry of Education: (1) impact on student in terms of academic achievement, attitudes, and behavior; (2) costs and benefits; (3) facility use; (4) impact…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
