MBLT Indicators Framework

Education Writers AssociationNashville, Tennessee May 20, 2014

Michelle Renée, Ph.D.

Principal Associate

MBLT Initiative Goal

“To reinvent public schools through more and better learning time in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, so that students are prepared equitably for college, career, and civicparticipation.”

MBLT Theory of Change

Building a Collectively Owned Indicators Framework

Four Stages of Implementation

1. Creating and Sustaining the Conditions for More and Better Learning Time

2. Ensuring Access to More and Better Learning Time

3. Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life

4. Scaling Up: Making More and Better Learning Time the “New Normal”

1. Creating and Sustaining the Conditions for More and Better Learning Time Creating positive school climate; building ownership,

engagement of teachers, family, and community Districts create supportive policy and structures; provide

leadership and funding to ensure success Resources reallocated and/or targeted to support local

MBLT ecosystems

1. Creating and Sustaining the Conditions for MBLT

Indicator: Targeted Fiscal Resources

2. Ensuring Access to More and Better Learning Time Understanding how

structures and strategies can facilitate (or impede) student opportunity, development, and agency

Ensuring students have agency in determining how their time is spent

Expanding learning time and using it successfully; providing teachers and educators time for collaboration

Indicators: Access to More Time; Support Services

2. Ensuring Access to More and Better Learning Time

Indicator: Identifying and Minimizing Time Distractors

UCLA IDEA

Table from: Rogers and Mirra (2014). Cracks in the Hourglass. AERA 2014.

3. Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life

Acquiring 21st century skills and knowledge needed for the next educational level

Engaging in learning in and out of school Engaged in activities and behaviors that ensure health and

well-being

3. Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life

Example of Using Multiple Indicators

James Irvine Foundation. 2014 Snapshot: Linked Learning in Motion.

4. Scaling Up: Making More and Better Learning Time the “New Normal”

MBLT models are successful across multiple schools, districts, and states

Partner organizations are meaningfully engaged across the ecosystem

Systemic equity is reached

More and Better Learning TimeIndicators Project

Contact Information

Email: Michelle_Renee@brown.edu

Website: http://annenberginstitute.org/project/more-and-better-learning-time-initiative