Elizabeth Hammond Brinkerhoff

Elizabeth Hammond Brinkerhoff is an educator and author focused on improving classroom time use and management in elementary settings. She is the coauthor of No More Sharpening Pencils During Work Time and Other Time Wasters, part of the Not This, But That series edited by Nell K. Duke and Ellin Oliver Keene, which offers research-based strategies to help teachers align classroom minutes with meaningful learning goals for students in grades K–5.

Brinkerhoff’s work in No More Sharpening Pencils During Work Time and Other Time Wasters emphasizes assessing how classroom time is spent, increasing time devoted to higher-level thinking, and fostering student independence by eliminating low-value activities and time wasters.