Connecticut Cohort 2

In Connecticut, the TIME Collaborative is a partnership between the National Center on Time & Learning, the Ford Foundation, the Connecticut State Department of Education, and several local community partners including the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, COMPASS Youth Collaborative, and the United Way of Meriden and Wallingford.

Cohort II schools are engaged in an intensive planning and redesign process that includes six full-day training sessions, two mini-sessions held at each planning school, personalized support and coaching, and access to NCTL resources. The planning process has been developed to prepare school teams to design a new school day/year that meets the needs of their students and community. At the end of the planning process, schools will submit implementation plans for their new school day/year for review by the TIME Collaborative partnership. Schools that have created plans that meet the TIME Collaborative standards for both high-quality and sustainability will move forward with implementation of their redesigned schedule with expanded learning time in the 2014 – 2015 school year.