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Chicago Public Schools should begin the school day with clubs or extracurricular activities to encourage kids to show up on time.
It should double the physical education students get — even if it means merely having kids climb stairs or take a brisk walk through the halls.
And to ensure CPS kids enjoy the “human right’’ to a daily “recess” from the school work day, parents should either volunteer to oversee recess or contribute to a fund that pays for school staff to oversee it.
Those are among the 49 ideas — some of them admittedly “controversial” — that 11 CPS teachers presented to Chicago Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard Monday, just as the nation’s third-largest school system debates what to do with the 90 extra instructional minutes promised in next year’s longer school day.
Teachers present ‘controversial’ ideas for longer school day - Chicago Sun-Times
The 34-page written report of the 11 teachers actually represents the input of nearly 600 teachers who participated in a 20-day online discussion to answer the question “If you could redesign the school structure to best fit the needs of your students at this 21st century moment of rapid change, what would the school day, week and year look like?”The question was posed by the not-for-profit Voices, Ideas, Vision, Action, or VIVA project, which aims to “elevate the voice of the classroom teacher’’ by serving as a intermediary between teachers unions and school districts on “topical” issues to advance education, said VIVA CEO Elizabeth Evans. National Lewis University staff also supported the effort.
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