After test score criticism, Klein allows more planning time
Teachers are starting the school year with 37.5 more minutes a week to figure out how to raise test scores.
In an email sent to principals on Friday, Chancellor Joel Klein announced that schools are now allowed to convert one period of tutoring time into teacher planning sessions aimed at boosting scores. The four-times-weekly, 37.5-minute sessions were introduced in February 2006 for teachers to offer small-group instruction.
“This time must be used in a structured way to look at data and student work, to examine curriculum and