Expanded Learning Time Innovation in Massachusetts Schools
In our highly competitive, ever-changing global society, the century-old model of schooling is simply out of date. Squeezing learning into a standardized box of 180 six-and-a-half hour days limits our capacity to adequately prepare the next generation for the careers of the future.
What happens if you provide schools a lot more time – a much longer day – and empower educators to re-imagine what that day can and should look like?
Our schools can become places for innovation, for breaking from the norms of the past. The factory model gets swept aside, replaced by schools where teaching and learning become exciting, joyful, and bursting with promise.