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North Reading School Start Times Committee

Parent/Community Members:

Alissa Fishman

David Miller

Samantha Miller

Kerry Reddington

Debbie Sharp

Sheela Sethuraman

North Reading School Committee:

Richard McGowan

North Reading Public Schools:

Nicole Pierce, North Reading High School

Michael Connelly, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations

Sean Killeen, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning

Patrick Daly, Superintendent

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View the slides from the 4/6/21 Presentation here:

School Start Time PresentationApril 6, 2021 School Start Time Presentation & Listening Forum

School Start Times Presentation to SC

2021-22 Start Times Timeline

The Science of Adolescent Sleep (Published 2017)Sleep deprivation is linked to behavioral and mental health problems and car accident risk, experts say, and starting school later could help.

Why school should start later for teensTeens don't get enough sleep, and it's not because of Snapchat, social lives or hormones -- it's because of public policy, says Wendy Troxel. Drawing from her experience as a sleep researcher, clinician and mother of a teenager, Troxel discusses how early school start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they need it most.

Teenage sleep affected by remote learning, later school time - The Washington Post.pdf

Dr. Judith Owens presents on School Start Times beginning at 59:40.

New study finds association between later school start times and decrease in teen-related car crashesThe study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine analyzed car accidents among teens in Fairfax County, Virginia, for two years.

Teens slept 45 minutes more a night when their school district tried a new scheduling strategyWhen middle and high school start times were pushed back, students got up to 45 minutes of extra shut-eye, revealed a new study in the journal Sleep.

Links to Studies and Research

Changing school start times: impact on sleep in primary and secondary school studentsAbstractStudy Objectives. To examine the impact of changing school start times on sleep for primary (elementary school: ES) and secondary (middle and high schoo

School Start Times for AdolescentsThe American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes insufficient sleep in adolescents as an important public health issue that significantly affects the health and safety, as well as the academic success, of our nation’s middle and high school students. Although a number of factors, including biological changes in sleep associated with puberty, lifestyle choices, and academic demands, negatively affect middle and high school students’ ability to obtain sufficient sleep, the evidence strongly implicates earlier school start times (ie, before 8:30 am) as a key modifiable contributor to insufficient sleep, as well as circadian rhythm disruption, in this population. Furthermore, a substantial body of research has now demonstrated that delaying school start times is an effective countermeasure to chronic sleep loss and has a wide range of potential benefits to students with regard to physical and mental health, safety, and academic achievement. The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly supports the efforts of school districts to optimize sleep in students and urges high schools and middle schools to aim for start times that allow students the opportunity to achieve optimal levels of sleep (8.5–9.5 hours) and to improve physical (eg, reduced obesity risk) and mental (eg, lower rates of depression) health, safety (eg, drowsy driving crashes), academic performance, and quality of life.

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