Claire Kaplan

Vice President, Strategy & Knowledge Management

Claire Kaplan has been with NCTL for ten years, leading the organization’s Knowledge Management efforts and developing its strategic direction. 

Having designed and led the technical assistance strategy for districts and schools planning for expanded learning time, and Claire also leads the development NCTL’s knowledge center to document best practices. In 2005, Claire co-authored Massachusetts 2020’s report Time for Change: The Promise of Extended Time Schools. And she is the lead author of Time Well Spent: Eight Powerful Practices of Successful, Expanded-Time Schools, a signature NCTL report published in 2011. 
 
Before joining NCTL, Claire founded CEK Strategies, a small consulting company that worked with non-profit organizations focused on education, community development, and youth programming to provide strategic planning, project management, program planning, writing, evaluation, and facilitation services. Previously, Claire served as a vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), 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 the organization’s consulting arm, the City Advisory Practice (CAP), which advises municipalities on inner-city business development and works with a broad constituency of leaders to develop tailored strategies for business growth.
 
Claire received a Master's in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Kennedy Fellow for two years. She received a BA cum laude from Princeton University.