Session 40: It’s Being Done: Replicating the Effective Practices of High-Performing, High-Poverty, High-Minority Schools

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At this conference, you’ve learned a lot about what other schools have done to raise achievement and close gaps. But what does that mean for you? How can you use what you’ve learned from these schools to chart your own school improvement efforts? In this session, the author of It’s Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools will discuss ways educators can use this collection of profiles of high-performing, high-poverty, high minority schools as a jumping off point for improvement. She will be joined by an educator who used the book’s insights to set some bold schoolwide goals and saw remarkable improvements in just one year.

Presenters:
Karin Chenoweth, senior writer, The Education Trust, Washington, D.C.
Morty Ballen, executive director, Explore Charter School, Brooklyn, N.Y.