Follow this link to download a PDF of the presentation. Camille Farrington, Managing Director and Senior Research Associate, at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, is a national expert on developing academic mindsets and the measurement of psychosocial…
Follow this link to download a PDF of the presentation. OneGoal has a motto, “Many paths. One goal: Graduation. Period.” OneGoal works to close the degree divide. In this session, we learned more about OneGoal’s work with Postsecondary Leadership Network. John…
Follow this link to download a PDF of the presentation. What kinds of indicators and early warning systems do we need today to help us restore, revitalize and deliver on the promise of public education? In this session, Robert Balfanz, Research Professor…
Follow this link to download a PDF of the presentation. In 1987, Secretary of Education William Bennet called Chicago public schools the worst in the nation due to dismal graduation rates. Over the next twenty years, the city used research…
Follow this link to download a PDF of the presentation. We need research innovations that offer practical solutions, especially today when we know we need to pay attention to students’ experiences and avoid creating extra work for teachers. The Project…
We need research innovations that offer practical solutions, especially today when we know we need to pay attention to students’ experiences and avoid creating extra work for teachers. The Project for Education that Scales (PERTS) has been working to create…
Follow this link to download a PDF of the presentation. During the 75-minute community meeting we heard from Megan Reder-Schopp, Director of Research, and Dr. Anu Sharma, Senior Research Scientist, for the BARR Center on how student success systems provide schools with a shared…
The focus of this session was understanding the importance of not looking just at one data point to evaluate students, but being able to see a 360-degree view of students by looking at a variety of data points. During the…
This meeting of the Community of Practice was focused on school connectedness and student success. We heard from Bob Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center and research professor at Johns Hopkins School of Education, who shared research on the effects of…
This meeting of the Community of Practice was focused on centering students. We heard from educators who have been using student input to improve on-track systems in schools. As we seek to transform or re-imagine how we build the classrooms…