Leadership and Staff
Technical Assistance
Claire Kaplan - claire@timeandlearning.org
Claire Kaplan has over fifteen years experience working in the non-profit and public sectors. She is the founder and principal consultant of CEK Strategies, a small consulting company which works with non-profit organizations focused on education, community development and youth programming. CEK Strategies provides strategic planning, project management, program planning, writing, evaluation and facilitation services to schools, community-based organizations, and foundations. She has designed and now leads a technical assistance strategy for districts and schools planning for Expanded Learning Time and is also developing a knowledge center to document best practices and resources on the topic. In addition, in 2005 she co-authored Massachusetts 2020’s report “Time for Change: The Promise of Extended Time Schools”.
Before starting CEK Strategies in March 2002, Claire served as a Vice President with the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City a national non-profit organization founded by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School to promote for-profit business growth in America’s inner cities. At ICIC, Claire co-developed and managed ICIC’s consulting arm, the City Advisory Practice (CAP), which advises cities on inner city business development and works with a broad constituency of leaders to develop tailored strategies for business growth.
Claire received a Masters in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government where she was a Kennedy Fellow for two years. She received a BA cum laude from Princeton University.
Chris Gabrieli- Co-Chair of the National Center on Time & Learning, John Podesta- CEO of the Center for American Progress, and Congressman Miller- Chair of the House Education Committee, discuss the National Center on Time & Learning at the launch event in D.C.
Paul Reville, Co-Chair of the National Center on Time & Learning, with Leigh Hopkins, National Network Director at the Center.
Jennifer Davis, President & CEO of the National Center on Time & Learning, formally launches the new center at an event in D.C. on October 2, 2007.