Is more time the wave of the future?
Speakers: Jennifer Davis, president of the National Center on Time & Learning; Erica Harris, officer, CPS Office of Extended Learning Opportunities; Timothy Knowles, director of the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago.

How more time can ignite change
Speakers: Jeffrey Riley, former principal of a Boston school that used additional learning time to redesign its instructional program and get off the school-closing list;  Robin Johnson, principal of L.E.A.R.N. Excel Charter School; and Paul O’Toole, principal of Marquette Elementary School.

January 21: Marrying schools and after-school time
Mary Ellen Caron, Chicago commissioner for Youth and Children Services, home to the Chicago Out-of-School Learning Time Project; Suzanne Armato, executive director of the Federation of Community Schools, Lila Leff, executive director of the Umoja Student Development Corp., and Sean Stalling, a new chief area officer and former principal of Manley High School.

The Evidence
Speakers: Charles Payne, Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago; author of So Much Reform, So Little Change and Penny Bender Sebring, founding co-director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research(CCSR) at the Urban Education Institute 

What Kids Think
Speakers:  Michael Woolley, professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and a noted researcher on how neighborhood social factors impact schools, and Mikva Challenge students and staff, a well-known youth development organization

What It Takes
Speakers:  Paul Tough, author of “Whatever It Takes” on the Harlem Children’s Zone; Nancy Aardema, executive director of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, and Chris Brown, director of Education Programs, Local Initiatives Support Corporation