Partnering with School Districts for Sustainable Success Devoted to system - wide school improvement, the Connecticut
Center for School Change assesses Connecticut school districts to identify key areas for improvement and provides strategies for sustainable student outcomes.
A recent study by the group I head, the Center
for School Change at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, adds further...
Mike's comments on the theory of
action for school change under decentralization, and the need for attention to micropolitics, are great.
The Connecticut Center
for School Change works to ensure that all students — regardless of income, ethnicity, language, race, zip code, disability — have equal access to and experience of a high - quality education and are supported in achieving at high levels.
With new funding from the Annenberg and Blandin foundations, and expansion to a second Center
for School Change created by the Graustein...
Teacher Quality This article from PEN (Public Education Network) offers insight into school reform, including mentions of
coaching for school change.
The Connecticut Center
for School Change also became involved, because they were working on problems of school improvement with some school districts in Connecticut and wanted to expand upon that work.
Reliance on highquality standards and
expectations for school change that explicitly includes P21's 4Cs aimed to deeper learning outcomes aligned with state and national standards.
«This year, we're branching out more into proactive steps of organizing with parents
directly for school change in the absence of parent trigger, and just using the mechanisms we've had here in LA since 1989.»
Other members of the Connecticut Center
for School Change include the former CEO of People's Bank; Elsa Nuñez, the Vice President of Malloy's Board of Regents and President of Eastern Connecticut State University; Richard Sugarman, Founder and President of The Connecticut Forum whose son just «won» a lucrative contract from Pryor and the State Board of Education to set up an «Our Piece of the Pie» charter school in Windham Connecticut.
Meaningful Student Involvement in education research turns the microphone around, making the student the examiner as well as the examined, and turns the feedback loop an
engine for school change.
Learning Through Technology Student Motivation
Leadership for School Change Educator Micro-credentials Proficiency - based, Customized Learning
Andrew Lachman Announces Retirement as Executive Director of Connecticut Center
for School Change Click here for Press Release
If you are interested in partnering with the Center
for School Change on large - scale instructional improvement, please contact Andrew Lachman at 860-586-2340.
Overall, ECMS is a partner in New Haven's School Change Initiative, providing a
model for school change that can greatly enhance the future of public schooling in New Haven.
Her books include Improving the Urban High School: What Works and Why (with Matthew B. Miles), Leadership for change and school improvement: International perspectives (with Kathryn Riley) and
Organizing for School Change (in press).
Joe Nathan, a former Minneapolis teacher and the current Director of the Center
for School Change highlights E4E's new report on Q Comp, which encourages...
«We're seeing some very, very creative ideas entering the charter world,» said Joe Nathan, director of the Center
for School Change at the University of Minnesota, who is a national expert on innovation in public schools.
and students developing a concrete course of
action for school change, culminating in a student presentation to school staff.
The Center
for School Change works with educators, parents, business people, students, policy - makers and other concerned people throughout the United States to:
Andrew Lachman, executive director of the Connecticut Center
for School Change, the nonprofit that organized the rounds group in Connecticut, says Elmore made it very clear when he first started working with the group that their language needed to be strictly descriptive.
Colleges and universities should adopt admissions criteria that consider not only what classes students have taken, but also what they actually know and are able to do, argues a report from the Center
for School Change.
The Center
for School Change, located at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute in Minneapolis, recently completed an intensive internal - review process marking its first five years — and pointing to the next five.
It co-authored by Lissa Young, Jennie Weiner, and Steven Wlodarczyk (from the Connecticut Center
for School Change).
As part of this important support from the Center
for School Change and Bremer Bank another $ 20,000 was given to our Owatonna school.
On Tuesday, January 6th, Joe Nathan and Marisa Gustafson from the Center
for School Change visited DREAM Technical Academy to talk with us about how to spend $ 20,000 that DREAM Technical Academy will receive as part of a grant given to the Center for School Change from the Otto Bremer Foundation.
Other consultants participating tomorrow include individuals from the Connecticut Center
for School Change, The New Teacher Project (TNTP) and Mass Insight — all of whom will explain to Connecticut superintendents, principals, teachers and others how to do their jobs
This discussion with Joe Nathan of the Center
for School Change will review the options to take such courses in a high school, taught by high school faculty, on - line, taught by high school or college faculty, and on a campus.
Featuring: Andrew Lachman (Executive Director, Connecticut Center
for School Change), Larry Leverett (Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation), Mary Ronan (Superintendent, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio), Jose Torres (President, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy).
While many criticize charter schools for not living up to their ideal as innovation labs for districts, Nathan has used his post at the Center
for School Change to develop collaborations between traditional districts and great schools whatever their model.
And now comes news that, only a few months ago, Stefan Pryor quietly signed a contract for more than $ 1 million with a politically connected organization called the Connecticut Center
for School Change.
In the «small world» department, the Connecticut Center
for School Change's Board of Directors includes Governor Malloy's campaign treasurer, Len Miller,
If you are interested in discussing opportunities for partnering with the Center
for School Change, please contact Andrew Lachman, Executive Director, at 860-586-2340.
Leveraging the Power of Three Through research and direct experience, the Connecticut Center
for School Change has identified three strategic areas of focus to create improvement in a school system.
Joe Nathan, a former public school teacher and administrator who now directs Macalaster College's Center
for School Change, attributed the barrage of school - related legislation to the prominence of new Republicans in office.
The work of the Connecticut Center
for School Change is made possible by generous donations from the following foundations and corporations:
«The Center
for School Change has been the major catalyst in my becoming a strong instructional leader.
The Connecticut Center
for School Change is pleased to announce our Third Annual Leading for Equitable Classrooms Institute to take place on October 15 & 16, 2018.
The Connecticut Center
for School Change (the Center) is a statewide, non-profit organization with a mission to improve teaching and learning, to reduce achievement gaps, and to promote equity in Connecticut schools.
He strongly urges school reform on behalf of more student learning and directs the Center
for School Change at the University of Minnesota.
Valbrun also was a school turnaround partner in Baltimore City Schools and a coordinator with the Connecticut Center
for School Change, where she facilitated their statewide School Instructional Improvement Network and provided leadership development and coaching for new school leaders in Stamford.