Success in High-Need Schools: How It’s Being Done

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Thriving high-poverty and high-minority schools have done the educational equivalent of inventing the wheel, argues author Karin Chenoweth. As she takes attendees through a whirlwind tour of what she calls “It’s Being Done” schools, Chenoweth will present the basic elements of what the schools (many of them Education Trust Dispelling the Myth Award winners) did to succeed. Their secrets range from keeping a laser-like focus on what students need to learn, to using formative assessments, and developing personal bonds between educators and students.
Presenter: Karin Chenoweth, author, It’s Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (2007) and How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools (2009) and senior writer, The Education Trust, Washington, D.C.