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23,000 Boston Students to Benefit from More Learning Time
We are excited to hear over our holiday break that leaders in Boston announced a tentative agreement with the Boston Teachers Union to lengthen the school day at 60 Boston Public Schools. Mayor Martin...
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Expanded Learning Time Segment on the NBC Nightly News
Did you watch NBC Nightly News last night? In case you missed it, they highlighted how Boston Public Schools are planning to add an additional forty minutes to their school day next year. Watch...
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Syracuse Leading the Way on Reform in New York
In a few weeks, we will be releasing an update of our policy trends report called Learning Time in America. As a preview, I can tell you that we have, once again, found momentum continuing to build...
View ArticleBoston: Poised and Ready for Change
Over our ten year history working in supporting schools to close achievement and opportunity gaps for students through expanded learning time, we have worked with the Boston Public Schools and the...
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Blended Learning and Expanded Learning Time: What We Believe, What We Know,...
This blog is written by Roy Chan, Director, Effective Practices, and author of our new blended learning report, Supporting Student Success through Time and Technology: A Step-by-Step Guide to...
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It’s About Time: Lessons from Meriden, CT
Today's blog is written by Robert Travaglini, senior director of school and district support in Connecticut.In Meriden, Connecticut, district leaders and teachers were in a quandary. Their neighborhood...
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The Most Exciting and Scariest Part of Blended Learning Isn’t Technology;...
Today We Release a Step-by-Step Blended Learning Expanded-Time Implementation Guide This blog is written by Roy Chan, Director, Effective Practices, and author of our new blended learning report...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Now – Thoughts on the Carnegie Foundation Report
A few weeks ago I watched parts of a six-episode documentary series on PBS entitled “How We Got To Now” in which journalist and author Steven Johnson explores some of the basic features of modern life...
View ArticleBreaking from the Norm - Expanded-Time Schools Are Doable
In a few weeks, NCTL will make available an update to our national database of expanded-time schools. As a recent NBC News segment previewed, NCTL has now identified significantly more expanded-time...
View ArticleSnowmageddon: The Lessons of Snow Days
This winter in Boston has been one for the record books. The city has had more snow pile up in the last few weeks than all winters on record, save one. Even more unbelievably, the six feet of snow...
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