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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