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COP: How a City Learned to Graduate More Students: Looking at the Case of Chicago Public Schools
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…
Webinar: Re-Building Student Supports for Pandemic-Impacted Times
Hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association Watch the webinar. Why do we need to rebuild student supports to meet current challenges? How can Student Success Systems help us do this? Speakers include:
COP: Integrating the measurement and monitoring of students’ perspectives in on-track work
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…
COP: Integrating the measurement and monitoring of students’ perspectives in on-track work
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…
COP: Fostering Systemic Resiliency for Students, Staff, and Schools
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…
COP: Seeing & Understanding Students with Data
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…
COP: School Connectedness & Student Success
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…
COP: Centering Students in Student Success Systems
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…
GRAD Partnership Launch
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…