Daily Archives: July 16, 2014

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How Manatee County Schools Are Training Teachers To Use Student Data

Florida Schools, Hot Topic, TeachersBy fsbawp July 16, 2014

Manatee County schools are holding summer sessions to train teachers how to set goals — and then use classroom data to meet those targets. On Monday, the district began the first of eight two-day data team training sessions to help school administrators and teachers use and analyze data to make smarter classroom decisions. About 36…

The Science Supporting Starting High School Classes Later In The Morning

Florida Schools, Hot Topic, In the NewsBy fsbawp July 16, 2014

Blame science – and not your teenager – if they’re slow starters in the morning. Teenagers just can’t get eight hours of sleep if high schools starts much before 8 a.m. University of Minnesota researcher Kyla Wahlstrom said that’s because adolescents go through something called the sleep phase shift. “Teenagers are basically unable to fall asleep…