The goal was to design a system that rewarded incremental gains without punishing
high performing schools where a majority of students are already proficient.
This might be particularly beneficial
when high performing schools are part of a similar feeder pattern, where those schools could collaborate to better serve all kids in the pipeline.
Creating Matters is helping us to think differently about our work as educators; our priorities, relationships, and what we are creating — in this
case high performing schools and effective leaders.
We need autonomous,
high performing schools where all children progress and achieve their potential and who are taught by the very best teachers.
The trust that families place in schools takes time to develop,
as high performing schools of all kinds — district, charter, parochial alike — understand.
As a result of a robust accountability system, more students are
attending higher performing schools which has translated to overall increases in program - wide scholarship student achievement,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.
Of the 20 local areas with the biggest increases in
high performing school places, 16 of which were in London, the proportion of such places rose significantly from 36 per cent to 60 per cent from 2010 - 2015.
If this option is selected, the district would solicit requests for partnerships from
high performing schools from across the portfolio to manage a «collective improvement partnership.»
The mission of KIPP MEMPHIS is to
create high performing schools in the Memphis community that will equip all students with the necessary academic and life skills needed to succeed through college and the competitive world beyond.
ARISE Schools is a New Orleans based network of
high performing schools which includes ARISE Academy, founded in 2008 located in the Upper Ninth Ward, and Mildred Osborne Charter School, founded in 2013 located in the Kenilworth area.
From the initial planning phases through your first year in operation, the Association offers extensive support for teams looking to open a new charter school or expand a
current high performing school.
MFA in Austin, TX, is working to deepen and codify their innovative model, which fuses Montessori with
other high performing school practices, to ensure success with an intentionally diverse learner community.
Bluum is dedicated to continuing to explore new paths forward and to encourage innovative opportunities that can
help high performing schools reach a more diverse cross-section of the state's increasingly diverse student population.
«They couldn't go much lower in terms of school achievement, so it's not surprising that displaced students attended
slightly higher performing schools, but if you look at how much higher performing, not a lot,» explained Kori Stroub, a researcher with Rice University who co-authored the research brief with Meredith Richards, an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University.
The plans have faced widespread criticism from opposition parties and the education profession, with claims that there is no solid proof that converting a school into an academy will improve results and that the changes could lead to lengthy and expensive conversions for
already high performing schools.
To help them do that she has committed to streamlining the process for
existing high performing schools and encouraging businesses, charities, cultural and sporting bodies to enter the programme.
Bluum is dedicated to continuing to explore new paths forward and to encourage new opportunities that can help
high performing schools reach a more diverse cross-section of the state's increasingly diverse student population.
While DPS has done a great job increasing the district's high school graduation rate and allowing the
new high performing schools to flourish, the district has struggled to make substantive improvements to the mainstream high schools.
«It is absurd that Connecticut's current funding system severely underfunds urban schools and
keeps high performing schools of choice, like the one my children attend, in a separate and unequal system,» she said.
Don't forget that in many urban areas there are clusters of affluent families able to
access high performing schools, while others» student bodies include concentrations of the poorest families, for example.
She
cites high performing schools in Europe and Asia that have three to four times more collaborative planning time for teachers than schools in the United States, and she suggests that teachers need to discover ways to collaborate to solve problems and improve practice.
LUMIN's organizers determined to reverse that trend by developing a network of
high performing schools focused on academic excellence, leadership development and spiritual growth; and supported by human care and social services designed to address the numerous «barriers to learning» confronted by urban students.