Learning from ExtraOrdinary Schools and Districts

Wednesday January 30, 2019
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom 2501 C

High-performing and rapidly improving high-poverty schools and districts hold important lessons that can be mined to improve achievement for all children. In this presentation, participants will go on a whirlwind tour with the author of the popular book Schools that Succeed and the podcast ExtraOrdinary Districts. See what she has seen and learn the essential principles that bind all these outliers together, despite their enormous differences in location, size, level, and demographics. Hint: there's no one program, no magic formula. The work the educators in these schools do is difficult but creative, doable, and satisfying -- and within the reach of all educators.

Presenters
Karin Chenoweth

Karin Chenoweth is writer-in-residence at The Education Trust, a national education advocacy organization that works to improve the achievement of all children, particularly children of color and children from low-income families. She is the author of several well-regarded books that draw lessons from high-performing and rapidly improving schools that serve large numbers of children of color and children from low-income families, including It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2007). Her latest book is Schools that Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement (Harvard Education Press, 2017) and she is the creator of the ExtraOrdinary Districts podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.
type:
Lecture
theme:
leadership
audience:
building leaders
topics:
school improvement, Title I-A, Title II-A