Promising Practices at Expanded Time Schools


At NCTL, we continuously seek out and study schools that have effectively adopted additional time into their school day and/or school year. Throughout the past decade, we have visited schools and spoken with educators to learn how schools are using additional time to close the achievement gap. Our goal is to document and disseminate some of the practices we have observed that are yielding positive results for students. We recognize that extra time is not a “silver bullet” that will improve the quality of a child’s education, but we believe that more time well-used can make the critical difference in helping all students - particularly high poverty students - achieve at high rates. 

 

In this section of our web-site you will find links to a wide variety of case studies, videos, school profiles, implementation tools and other information gleaned from our research on expanded time schools. These materials are organized by topic areas to the left, as well as format (PowerPoint Presentations, Practice Profiles, Implementation Tools and Videos) and grade levels (Elementary, Middle and High School).