Session 2: Moving the Rock Slowly: Elmont Memorial Junior-Senior High School

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Back by popular demand! Winner of the 2005 Dispelling the Myth Award, Elmont Memorial Junior-Senior High School is an urban-suburban school in Nassau County, New York. Seventy-five percent of Elmont’s students are African-American, and most of the rest are either Latino or Asian. All seniors graduate, most with the prestigious New York Regents diploma. Ninety-six percent of graduates go on to college, most to four-year colleges. Elmont’s faculty members have achieved these results by setting ambitious but achievable annual goals (its principal, John Capozzi, calls this “moving the rock slowly”) and by the relentless pursuit of better instruction. Hear Capozzi talk about the 13-year effort to improve Elmont, and how those efforts have paid off for students.

Presenters:
John Capozzi, Principal; Brian Burke, Assistant Principal, Elmont Memorial Junior-Senior High School, Elmont, NY

Strand 3: Transforming Secondary Schools