Assistant Principal Kimberly Sheppard and I discussed Henry County’s method of circumventing that brain overload by implementing an 80-20 rule in which students receive instruction for 20 percent of the time and implement for 80 percent of the time.

Not only has it been a powerful practice for students, it has benefited the teachers.

“In fact, we used professional development time for them to actually sit down and look at what the idea and the concept was, and then for them to come up with a guideline of what would be taking place during the 20 percent of the time they would be using direct instruction and what would be taking place during that 80 percent where the students were actually applying the information,” said Kimberly.

ABOUT KIMBERLY SHEPPARD
Kimberly Sheppard is the assistant principal at The Academy for Advanced Studies in Henry County Schools, Georgia. Prior to this position, she has taught at each building level as well as worked as a District Personalized Learning Coach and a HS School Improvement Facilitator.

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