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What produces breakthrough results in chronically low-performing
schools?
Across three diverse urban districts (San Francisco Unified,
San Jose Unified and Oakland Unified), each with distinct challenges,
strong partnerships with leaders and teachers and substantial
implementation of the PartnersSI model significantly narrowed
the achievement gap in the 2008-09 school year.
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Partner schools that substantially implemented our core
service model outperformed the literacy gains on the 2009
California Standards Test in English Language Arts (CST-ELA)
compared to their respective districts, similar schools around
the state, and the state as a whole.
- English Learners in these schools outpaced the reading
growth of their fluent English speaking peers. These results
hold great promise as we continue to learn what truly works
and ensure that proven practices are implemented consistently
across all our schools to achieve dramatic gains for more students
in the future.
These results hold great promise. As we continue to study what
truly works, we will consistently implement the proven practices
in our model across all our schools in order to increase and expand
our impact on children in need.

School
Spotlights

Brookfield Elementary
This year we partnered with New Leaders for New Schools to pilot
an approach for accelerating school transformation by linking
results-oriented leaders with our core service model. All five
pilot schools made gains, including Brookfield Elementary in Oakland
Unified, which significantly outpaced the district for all students
and more than doubled district gains for English Learners.

Cesar Chavez Elementary
Cesar Chavez was one of several PartnersSI schools in San
Francisco Unified to achieve significant growth this year. As
a new partner school, Cesar Chavez fully embraced the core service
model, and has set a solid foundation for further gains in the
coming year.

Empire Gardens Elementary
Empire Gardens had the second highest reading gains of all the
elementary schools in San Jose Unified this year. The school leveraged
our core service model components that were closest to the classroom:
building individual teacher capacity and a stronger core instructional
program.
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