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Four Additional Schools in New York Public Schools Announce Implementation of Time To Know this Fall

Aug 24, 2010
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Dallas, Tx

At a recent Israeli education conference, New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein stated, “Education reform requires big thinking. It doesn’t mean that every [idea] will succeed, but if you keep doing the same thing and expect similar results, you’re doomed to fail.”  Supporting Klein’s significant remarks, New York City Schools announced that this school year four additional elementary schools will implement the cutting-edge digital teaching platform Time To Know, which also is being introduced in 20 elementary schools in the district through the lauded Innovation Zone (iZone) project.

 
The four schools (separate from the iZone project) that will be utilizing Time To Know this fall include P.S. 327 Dr. Rose B. English, P.S. 130 Hernando Desoto, P.S. 270 Gordon Parks and P.S. 001 Tottenville.  P.S. 69 New Vision School and the Hellenic Classical Charter School also recently announced they would begin using the system in the fall, bringing the total number of New York schools implementing Time To Know to 26. 
 
Time To Know is a complete, interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms. The digital teaching platform empowers teachers to easily manage instruction, individualize learning, assess mastery in real time, and provide immediate feedback to students. Designed around guided constructivist principles, Time To Know’s digital comprehensive curriculum helps students build 21st century skills, including problem-solving, higher order thinking, and cooperative learning to prepare them for high stakes tests and the future.
 
Each of the four schools will implement Time To Know in their fourth and fifth grade classrooms, and teachers participated in professional learning sessions with instructional coaches over the summer to become acquainted with the technology. For many school administrators and staff members, the introduction of the Time To Know system is a means for fostering greater technological advancement to further reduce access and achievement gaps in their communities.
 
“Time To Know will allow us to go the extra mile in differentiating instruction. Each student experiences learning a little differently, and when you can tap into a student’s interest, they are more engaged,” said Dr. Stephen Appea, principal of P.S. 327 in Brooklyn, the Dr. Rose B. English School. “We have to compete with so many things for our students’ attention. If we are not using the dominant media forms, then we won’t succeed. We are using technology to create lifelong opportunities for our students.”
 
For Appea, Chancellor Klein and New York City Schools, the implementation of Time To Know’s technology is part of the big thinking required for education reform. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post during his trip to Israel, Klein commented, “We have to challenge ourselves and the status quo. And that’s a noisy process. But in a lot of systems the status quo protects interests but not the children, and therefore, it has to be addressed.”
 
About Time To Know
Introduced in Israel in 2007 and launched in the United States this school year, Time To Know is a complete, interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms. By creating a new educational product category, the Digital Teaching Platform, Time To Know is helping school districts improve the quality of teaching and learning, while fully realizing the vision of one-to-one computing. For more information, please visit www.timetoknow.com or call 888-559-6560.
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Leslie Eicher, APR
 
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