Technical Assistance
Our leadership and staff have extensive experience directly working with state leaders, school districts, and schools to expand learning time. From designing a statewide policy agenda, to working at the district level to negotiate union contracts, to school level efforts to design a newly expanded academic schedule, including adding enrichment programs and building school partnerships, our staff has worked side by side with governors, legislators, district and school administrators, union leaders, parents and teachers to redesign school schedules to meet the needs of the 21st century.
If you are a state or district policy leader and want assistance on public policy, financing and other strategies for developing a successful initiative to add learning time to the school schedule, or read the Center for American Progress’ case study on the Massachusetts statewide initiative.
If you have a question about how to expand a schedule, visit our ask a principal section to pose your question to a principal with 20 years of experience, who changed his school's schedule and would be happy to answer your questions.
Case Study: Regional Technical Assistance Institutes
Technical Assistance Staff
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.
Ben Lummis
leads the public policy effort that has created the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative. In addition, Ben works on the Center's national policy effort that supports developing expanded learning time initiatives at the federal level and in states across the country.