Leadership and Staff
Technical Assistance
Helenann Civian
Helenann Civian has been in education for 20 years. She is currently leading and providing technical assistance to Massachusetts school districts that have received planning grants to expand their school day. She works directly with districts to support their development and redesign plans.
As a former teacher, curriculum coordinator and school leader, she has lead major reform efforts in several districts. She became a nationally certified teacher as well as nationally certified facilitator for the National School Reform Faculty.
Helenann has worked at the Center for Collaborative Education in Boston where she was the Director of the Mathematics and Science Initiative, SIMSE funded by the Noyce Foundation. She soon became the Director of the Small Schools Network at the Center for Collaborative Education which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This work involved re-designing large comprehensive highschools to small equitable autonomous schools. In her leadership, she also supported schools that received small learning community grants that were funded by the Federal government. Helenann also directed the Coalition of Essential Schools.
Helenann has her masters in education and public policy from Bridgewater State College and a concentration in social service. She currently lives in Canton with her husband Jamey and her 3 children, Vincent, William and Sara.
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.