At this website, you can learn more about the findings from BERC's projects with educational leaders, partners, and stakeholders in their work with Baltimore City schools and organizations.
This document compiles a series of best practices "quick wins" that were implemented during virtual learning to increase the financial aid completion of students. Each 'Quick Win' provides context, clear steps, and a list of additional items for school teams to take into consideration.
This guide, developed by Mass Insight, is rooted in the findings from rigorous, multistage audience research that sought to understand the perceptions, sentiments, and motivations of school- and district-based educators on the topic of continuous improvement. It provides actionable considerations for CI networks when developing marketing materials and communicating with current and potential network members.
This set of completion markers, based on 8 years of tracking and 4 years of in-depth work with schools, defines and characterizes individual, team, and whole school effort. This document can be used in tandem with their Financial Aid Quick Wins.
Since August 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made grants to 24 organizations that are supporting 38 networks of middle and high schools, called Networks for School Improvement (NSI). These networks aim to improve outcomes for students who are Black, Latino, or experiencing poverty by using data-driven approaches to continually improve their practice. This report captures four trends, based on the work of NSIs during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years.
This blog summarizes trends from Networks for School Improvement (NSI) from the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school year. It highlights high-level points from the recent report, Lessons from Networks for School Improvement: School Year 2020-21, released by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
This Survey from Search Institute helps leaders to evaluate relationships between students and educators, measure equity, and assess social-emotional learning.
Partners in School Innovation's Practice Guide for Equitable Grading provides research-based opportunities and actions for leaders and teachers to improve grading practices. This guide shares context and tailored resources for each practice categorized by key levers in the improvement process.
As you continue to test out new ideas through CI, check out these resources to ensure equity is the core of every idea.
The resources in this collection will help your team explore different approaches used by schools and districts with 9th grade on-track goals. You will be able to access protocols, research, tools, and exemplars that offer evidence-based approaches to improvement in this area.
