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Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA
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Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA
@melhawk46
Author of The Hawkins Model©. Simple changes to the rules by which we teach shifts focus of education to relationships & success, sans failure for all kids!
Cape May, NJ เข้าร่วม Aralık 2009
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Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว

More days in school doesn’t mean more learning.
And this isn’t opinion.
The data backs it up.
The OECD has reported that simply increasing instructional time does not improve student outcomes.
Pew Research shows there’s a wide range of instructional hours across countries, with no consistent link to performance.
If time alone worked…
the countries with the most hours would dominate.
They don’t.
In fact, students in the United States already spend more time in school than many countries.
By the end of lower secondary school, students in Finland receive about 6,300 hours of instruction.
In the United States, it’s more like 9,000+ hours.
That’s a huge difference.
And yet… more time hasn’t translated into better outcomes.
So it’s not a time problem.
It’s how we use the time.
High-performing countries don’t cut arts, PE, and music to make room for more academics.
They protect them.
Because they understand these actually help improve student learning.
Movement improves focus.
Arts build creativity and thinking.
Music strengthens cognitive development.
So while we’re trying to cram more academics into more time…
They’re building better learners.
That’s why they can do less time and still get strong results.
But we keep going back to the same thinking,
if a little is good, more must be better.
That logic doesn’t hold up anywhere else.
No coach is doubling practice time thinking it will double performance.
That’s not better training… that’s overtraining.
And overtraining doesn’t build athletes, it breaks them down.
The brain works the same way.
There’s a limit to how much it can take in before more actually starts working against you.
You don’t get better learning—you get fatigue, disengagement, and burnout.
Especially with kids.
So when we add more days without changing the experience, nothing really improves.
We’re just stretching out the same problem over a longer period of time.
We don’t need more time.
We need to use time the way kids actually learn,
not the way it gets designed by people who aren’t in the room.
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Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว

The White House deleted this embarrassing video. So whatever you do- * DON'T REPOST IT. * Donald wouldn't like it if you hit "repost."
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว

Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb blasts Trump’s “shameful” and “despicable” post about Robert Mueller’s death:
“He’s a demented narcissist. You know, seriously hates anybody who stands in opposition to him, has reworked the justice department into a revenge machine, and rules the country in a very authoritarian manner with the assistance of a cowardly cabinet and even more cowardly Republicans in Congress.”
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Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
Mel Hawkins, MSEd, MPA รีทวีตแล้ว
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