Giving Compass' Take:

• EdSurge writes about how they helped design a new school schedule to better support students and promote creative teaching and deeper learning: through neuroscience. 

• How will schools measure impact of new school scheduling? Will it be an easy thing to adopt for all schools? 

• To read more about flexible and changing school schedules, click here. 

It is 8 p.m. and Sam is sitting down for the first time in hours after a long day at school, which was followed by play practice; she is Liesel in the upcoming performance of “The Sound of Music.” After leaving school at 5 p.m., she had a two-hour soccer practice, a brief dinner with her family and a shower.

Finally settling in at her desk, she checks Schoology, her school’s learning management system, to see what homework she has for the six classes she will attend tomorrow. Because Sam has so many classes each day, she has a heavy homework load. Despite her knowledge of existing research about the cost transaction when switching between her academic assignments and an incoming text or Instagram message, she cannot resist social media breaks, which provide dopamine boosts. After all, she is a high school freshman.

Read the full article about how neuroscience helped launch a new school schedule by Glenn Whitman at EdSurge.