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Kelly Surber teaches STEM at Kepner Beacon Middle School. This year, the school started testing a scheduling dynamic called Block Days. These were unusual long stretches of classroom time, blocks of precisely 143 minutes, where students worked on a single area such as Math, Science, Reading, etc. Block days were challenging because students were not used to working on a single topic for that long,...