If we (superintendents) expect all students to
achieve at high academic levels, then we must provide the leadership necessary to improve the quality of instruction across the entire system.
Further, these curricular experiences should be accompanied by supports for students and their teachers, to ensure that learners are challenged and
successful at a high academic level.
By proving that students, regardless of what ZIP code they are born into, can
perform at high academic levels, we seek to transform not only the lives of the students at Democracy Prep but also the expectation of what public schools can achieve.
Evaluating teacher quality based on the level of their students» end - of - year test scores has been one method of assessing teacher quality, but this approach favors those teachers of students who begin the year
already at a high academic level.
As founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, the largest and best - performing public charter school network in New York City, I have made it my mission to challenge the conventional wisdom that children from low - income, minority neighborhoods can not
achieve at the highest academic levels.
Inherent in BVP's mission is the belief that all children can achieve
at high academic levels, and those demographics do not, and more importantly should not, determine their level of success.
The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC - based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve
at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty - first century.
She firmly believes that all students can achieve
at the highest academic levels and deserve an opportunity to succeed in their school.