Disrupting Poverty: How High Performing Schools Do It

Friday January 29, 2016
1:45 - 2:45 PM
General Assembly Theater A

Much can be learned from schools that have helped their students overcome the powerful and pervasive effects of poverty. Join the discussion based on the award-winning, best-selling ASCD book, Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools, as the authors share insight and lessons learned from recent studies of high-poverty, high-performing schools. Participants will learn to use a framework to guide collaborative action. They will gain a better understanding of poverty and its impact on student learning, as well as how to confront and eliminate practices that work against student and school success. Practical strategies necessary to reverse the all too common trend of under-achievement will be shared and tools to facilitate self-auditing, professional learning, and action planning will be provided.

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Kathleen Budge

Kathleen Budge is an associate professor of Educational Leadership in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department where her research and scholarly activity focuses on educational poverty, rural education, and leadership development. She has conducted numerous presentations at national and state conferences as well as published articles on these topics in such well-respected journals as The Journal of Research in Rural Education, Education Policy Analysis Archive, American Journal of Education, and Educational Leadership. She is co-author of the award-winning book Turning High Poverty Schools Into High Performing Schools (ASCD, 2012).
Kathleen is also coordinator of the Executive Educational Leadership Program at Boise State University. She has led the development of two innovative, non-traditional leadership preparation programs during her tenure at Boise State. The purpose of both programs is to develop leaders who have the commitment and capabilities to lead schools and school districts where all students succeed. From 2011-2015, she was co-director of the Idaho Leads Project, the goal of which is to prepare all Idaho students for success in the 21st Century by strengthen leadership capacity in Idaho’s K-12 schools and districts and enhancing the advancement of educational improvement in Idaho’s communities.
Kathleen earned her doctorate from the University of Washington in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in 2005. She was selected to participate in Leadership for Learning, an innovative, cohort-based program that emphasized the link between leadership and learning, as well as the development of leaders willing and able to address and redress issues of equity and social justice.Her consultancies include state departments, boards of education, state and regional service providers, as well as school districts throughout the US. Dedicated to improving educational outcomes for all children, particularly those less advantaged, she has been instrumental in the acquisition of nearly 10 million dollars in grants and contracts to advance this aim.
Prior to joining the faculty at Boise State, Kathleen served as the Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning at Educational Service District 113 in Olympia, Washington. She provided leadership to forty-five, predominately rural, school districts serving approximately 77, 000 students. She led the development of a highly successful regional job-embedded professional development model and facilitated data-based improvement planning with more than 150 schools. Her leadership was recognized through being awarded the Washington Association of School Administrator’s (WASA) Regional President’s Award, the WASA Award of Merit, and the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts President’s Award for significant contribution to the state’s educational service agencies.
Additionally, she served as a Washington State Distinguished Educator/School Improvement Specialist providing training and consultation to superintendents, central office administrators, building principals and teacher-leaders in schools spanning grades preschool-12, and varying in size, demographics, and geographical location. She was a member of the Statewide School Improvement Technical Assistance Council and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Curriculum Advisory and Review Committee, as well as a contributing author to the School System Improvement Guide and the Washington State School Improvement Planning Guide both published by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Olympia, Washington.
During her twenty-six years in P-12 education, she also served as a district curriculum director, an elementary principal, and an elementary and special education teacher. She continues to maintain that her most important and significant work has been teaching first graders to read.

 
William Parrett

William H. Parrett is the Director of the Center for School Improvement & Policy Studies and Professor of Education at Boise State University. He has received international recognition for his work in school improvement related to children and adolescents that live in poverty. His professional experiences include public school teaching and principalships, curriculum design and media production, and college leadership, teaching, research and publication.

Parrett holds a Ph.D. in Secondary Education from Indiana University. Parrett has served on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of Alaska and Boise State University. As Director of the Boise State University Center for School Improvement & Policy Studies

(1996 to present), Parrett coordinates funded projects and school improvement initiatives that currently exceed $ 8 million annually. His research on reducing achievement gaps and effective schooling practices for youth living in poverty, and low-performing schools has gained widespread recognition.

Parrett is the co-author (with Kathleen Budge) of the best selling, Turning High-Poverty Schools Into High-Performing Schools, (ASCD, 2012), winner of 2013 Silver Excel Award for Best Technical Book (Association Media and Publishing). He has also co-authored Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools, 2nd edition, (Corwin Press, 2008, Best Seller & Honorable Mention, National Education Book of the Year 2009), The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty (Solution Tree, 2007, Best Seller), Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools (2003), Hope Fulfilled for At-Risk & Violent Youth (2001), How to Create Alternative, Magnet, and Charter Schools that Work (1997), Hope at Last for At-Risk Youth (1995), Inventive Teaching: Heart of the Small School (1993), The Inventive Mind: Portraits of Effective Teaching (1991), authored numerous articles in national journals and presented frequently at international and national conferences.

Parrett’s media production, Heart of the Country (1998), is a documentary of an extraordinary principal of a village elementary school in Hokkaido, Japan, and the collective passion of the community to educate the heart as well as the mind. Since its release, the production was nominated for the Pare Lorentz Award at the 1999 International Documentary Awards (Los Angeles, CA); has won the Award of Commendation from the American Anthropological Association, a Gold Apple Award for best of category at the National Education Media Network Festival (Oakland, CA), a National CINE Golden Eagle Award (Washington, D.C.), and a Judges’ Award at the 24th Northwest Film Festival (Portland, OR). In addition, Heart of the Country was an invited feature and screened at the Cinema du Reel festival in Paris (1998) and the Margaret Mead Film Festival (1998) in New York City. This work has received critical acclaim for its cinematography and insight into the universal correlates of effective teaching and learning and the power of community participation in public schools.

Parrett has also served as visiting faculty at Indiana University, the University of Manitoba, Oregon State University, Hokkaido University of Education (Japan), Nagoya Gakiun (Japan), Gifu University (Japan) and Heilongjiang University (People’s Republic of China). His consultancies include state departments, boards of education, state and regional service providers and school districts in 44 states and 10 nations.

Throughout his career, Parrett has worked to improve the educational achievement of all children and youth, particularly those less advantaged. Toward this goal, his efforts have resulted in the creation of numerous policies, programs and interventions designed to help educators, schools, communities, and universities benefit from research and best practice. These efforts have positively impacted the lives of thousands of young people, many of which live in poverty.

theme:
leadership
audience:
186
topics:
school improvement, at-risk populations, cultural diversity