New Report: A Year of Lessons from Expanding Learning Time

Posted by on June 15, 2009

Expanded Learning Time: the New Normal – from TASC
June 3, 2009

Visit the TASC Web site http://www.tascorp.org/content/blog/detail/2463 for New York Nonprofit Press piece as a PDF.

Dear Friends,
A year ago, TASC joined with the New York City Department of Education and the Department of Youth and Community Development to expand learning time by at least 30 percent for students in 10 New York City public schools. With Year One of the Expanded Learning Time/New York City pilot coming to a close, now we see what it looks like on the ground when schools and community-based organizations truly partner to expand learning – sharing the funding 50/50, forming one enriched and ambitious school culture under the principal’s leadership, and collaborating on everything from curriculum to parent outreach across the 3 PM dividing line. It looks like the smoothly aligned day — with rigor and purpose in the creative activities — that is the long-standing goal of so many in the after-school field.

I hope you’ll find value in this essay recently published in New York Nonprofit Press (http://nynp.biz/index.php/points-of-view/918-a-year-of-lessons-from-expanded-learning-time) and that you will join TASC in our efforts to expand learning time for more kids and schools, using all available resources from federal stimulus funds to private grants. Please be in touch with your thoughts or questions.

Warmest regards,

The After-School Corporation
info@tascorp.org