Events

COP: Fostering Systemic Resiliency for Students, Staff, and Schools
Sept. 21, 2022

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 lens, belief system, and vocabulary to prioritize relationships and use of data to empower all individuals within the system and help cultivate a positive school climate, which provides the environment for all children and adults to develop resilience.

COP: Seeing & Understanding Students with Data
Aug. 31, 2022

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 75-minute community meeting we heard from Elizabeth Kirby, Superintendent Cleveland Height-University Heights City School District, on how they use data to understand student experiences, which includes broadening our understanding of data and the value of drawing from multiple sources.

COP: School Connectedness & Student Success
July 27, 2022

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 the pandemic on school connectedness, and invited attendees to engage with others to surface expertise, strategies, and best practices.

COP: Centering Students in Student Success Systems
June 22, 2022

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 and schools students need, drawing on student data is one way to tap into students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential to inform what becomes our new normal.

Speakers included Sarah Howard, Senior Director of the Partner Network at The Network for College Success at the University of Chicago, and Gina Pascual, Senior Improvement Coach for CORE Districts.

Panelists Carla Gay, Executive Director, Innovation and Partnership, Gresham-Barlow School District, Portland, Oregon, Elizabeth Kirby, Superintendent, Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District, University Heights, Ohio, and Robert Balfanz, Director, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins School of Education hosted an enriching discussion about the successful use of student success systems to help students graduate ready for their next steps.