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Matthew CibellisEvents Content Manager, Education Week
Editorial Projects in Education
#edweekevents
Virginia B. EdwardsEditor-in-Chief, Education Week, and President,
Editorial Projects in Education
#edweekevents
An Education Revolution: America’s Egypt Moment
Milton Chen in conversation with Virginia B. Edwards
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Maximizing Your Schools’ Staff Resources to Advance
Student LearningAndrés A. Alonso, Chief Executive Officer, Baltimore City
Public Schools
Peter C. Gorman, Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
Moderator: Maureen Kelleher, Contributing Writer, Education Week
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Rethinking Notions of School Time and Class Size
Peter C. Gorman, Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Terry Holliday, Kentucky Commissioner of Education
Regis Shields, Human Capital Director, Education Resource Strategies
Moderator: Sarah D. Sparks, Staff Writer, Education Week
In this economy, how can school districts prepare all students for jobs of the future?
Lydia Miles Logan
Senior Policy DirectorThe Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
May 13, 2011
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The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, www.broadeducation.org, is a national philanthropy that seeks to help urban school districts produce dramatically higher student achievement and close income and ethnic achievement gaps.
The foundation, which has invested $450 million in education philanthropy in the last decade, is currently focused on investing in leadership, innovation, policy and building institutional capacity.
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Our theory of change
What does it look like when an entire school district is organized and run in a way that allows teaching and learning to succeed?
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Our theory of change
School districts should focus all staff and resources on:
Student achievement Empower staff to make dramatic student gains and hold
them responsible for student growth All resources efficiently and effectively support teachers
and students– “Everyone here is either a teacher or someone who
supports teachers” -- Gwinnett County Superintendent Alvin Wilbanks, longest serving urban superintendent
Problem solving and continuous improvement (data, strategize, measure progress, re-strategize if necessary, loop-back… re-teach, re-teach, re-teach)
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Lessons learned
1. Teachers cannot do this work alone.
2. Leadership is critical.
3. Redesign districts to efficiently and effectively create conditions under which students and teachers can succeed.
• Create research-based, logical strategies to solve problems.
• Articulate and communicate a mission. • Measure results with accurate, meaningful data. • Change what doesn't work. (loopback)
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“Continuous improvement” in action
Training future teachers, curriculum and instructional strategies: Long Beach and area colleges synergistically improve upon each other’s curriculum and instruction
Recruitment , selection and professional development: Teach For America’s continuous improvement model
Professional development: Long Beach evaluates effectiveness of professional development
Teaching relying on data: Gwinnett County, Ga. monitors the effectiveness of data driven teaching
Interventions: Socorro’s online data-base allows for continuous improvements to get at-risk kids up to speed
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Keep $ cuts away from classroom
Strategic prioritization: Align school and district resources with strategic plan (Aldine, Oakland) district.
Operational efficiencies: Renegotiate contracts; be creative with capital assets; remove duplicative central office roles; benchmark operations against other districts; tighten food ordering processes; put checks and controls in place to limit equipment purchases and repairs (Miami-Dade, Denver and Boston saved millions)
Technology: Adopt hybrid or blended models or call for state policy changes on “seat time.” (Rocketship hybrid charter school in San Jose, Calif.)
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Empower teachers and staff to succeedExpand learning time: In Massachusetts, now 15 states considering
Data-driven teaching and re-teaching: Aldine and Broward County have online assessment banks and proven lesson banks
Technology: Individualize instruction and cover basic skills (New York City’s School of One model uses instructional algorithm for middle school math)
Standards and curriculum: Montgomery County, Md. and Gwinnett County, Ga. back-mapped expectations from college level, standards higher than state
Meaningful staff evaluation system to drive improvements in teaching and learning: D.C. teacher evaluation system, Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s performance management system
Principal freedom to select staff: Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s strategic staffing initiative
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For additional information visit our websites:
www.broadeducation.org
www.broadprize.org
Districtwide Practices Proven to Boost Student Achievement
Lydia M. Logan in conversation with Virginia B. Edwards
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Digital Innovation In Education
Pamela Livingston, Product Manager, OnDemand Professional Development, Tutor.com
Bailey Mitchell, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Forsyth County Schools, Georgia
Todd Yohey, Superintendent, Oak Hills Local School District, Ohio
Moderator: Ian Quillen, Staff Writer, Education Week and Education
Week Digital Directions#edweekevents
National Policy BriefingJames Applegate, Vice President for Program Development,
Lumina Foundation for Education
Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President for Education Policy, Center for American Progress
Susan Frost, Vice President, The Sheridan Group
Moderator: Mark Bomster, Assistant Managing Editor, Education Week
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Leading 21st Century Districts:A View 10 Year Out
Ken Kay in conversation with Virginia B. Edwards
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Upcoming Education Week Leadership Forum: Boosting Student Achievement with
Education Technology
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October 4, 2011 Philadelphia, Hyatt at the Bellevue
October 7, 2011 Chicago, Marriott Magnificent Mile