Matthew CibellisEvents Content Manager, Education Week

Editorial Projects in Education

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Virginia B. EdwardsEditor-in-Chief, Education Week, and President,

Editorial Projects in Education

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Milton ChenExecutive Director Emeritus

George Lucas Educational Foundation

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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 SchoolsPeter C. Gorman, Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg

SchoolsRandi 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 EducationRegis Shields, Human Capital Director, Education Resource

Strategies

Moderator: Sarah D. Sparks, Staff Writer, Education Week

Lydia M. LoganSenior Policy Director The Broad Foundation

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In this economy, how can school districts prepare all students for jobs of the future?

Lydia Miles LoganSenior Policy Director

The Eli and Edythe Broad FoundationMay 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 EducationPamela Livingston, Product Manager, OnDemand

Professional Development, Tutor.comBailey Mitchell, Chief Technology and Information Officer,

Forsyth County Schools, GeorgiaTodd Yohey, Superintendent, Oak Hills Local School District,

OhioModerator: Ian Quillen, Staff Writer, Education Week and Education

Week Digital Directions#edweekevents

National Policy BriefingJames Applegate, Vice President for Program Development,

Lumina Foundation for EducationCynthia G. Brown, Vice President for Education Policy,

Center for American ProgressSusan Frost, Vice President, The Sheridan GroupModerator: Mark Bomster, Assistant Managing Editor, Education Week

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Ken KayChief Executive Officer, EdLeader21 and the E-Luminate Group

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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

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