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Implementing the extended school day policy in Florida’s 300 lowest performing elementary schools

Region:

Southeast

Description:

Since 2014, Florida law has required the 300 elementary schools with the lowest reading performance to provide supplemental reading instruction through an extended school day. This study found that in 2014/15, on average, the lowest performing schools were smaller than other elementary schools and served higher proportions of racial/ethnic minority students and students eligible for the federal school lunch program. Schools reported using a variety of strategies to comply with the extended school day policy such as increasing reading instruction time each day, increasing staff, providing professional development for teachers, and providing instruction in the extra hour that differed from instruction during the rest of the day. Increased professional development and curricular and pedagogic changes were identified as indirect benefits of implementation.

Publication Type:

Making Connections

Online Availability:

• View, download, and print the report as a PDF file (821 KB)

Publication Date:

March 2017

Contact:

• Folsom, Jessica Sidler
  (850) 645-0343
  jfolsom@fcrr.org