“Don’t go back!”
This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or what we like to call, Mind, Brain and Education (MBE).