Director, Effective Practices
Roy has been a member of the Knowledge Management team at NCTL since April 2010. He is responsible for documenting and disseminating promising practices taking place at expanded-learning-time schools across the country. During the past two years, Roy has served as a lead writer for the signature NCTL publication Time Well Spent: Eight Powerful Practices of Successful, Expanded-Time Schools, and as the researcher and author of the case studies that comprise the organization’s new series on Transforming Schools through Expanded Learning Time.
Roy started his career in education as a Teach for America corps member, teaching seventh and eighth grade math, social studies, and science in Philadelphia. Roy’s work in Philadelphia led him to a non-profit organization, AchieveAbility, planning academic programs for low-income single parent families. He then moved on to serve as a member of the School Opening and Transitions team of then Washington, D.C. School Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Right before joining NCTL, Roy worked with the Big 8 Texas school districts to document their use of data to measure and drive student achievement.
Roy holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.