Stories from the Field: Finding Focus By Amanda Faulkner A day in the life of a principal is full of competing priorities--observing classrooms, planning professional development for teachers, meeting with parents, and attending to dozens of other tasks. Joey Sundberg, the principal of King Elementary School in Richmond, California, knows
Stories from the Field: Equitable Instruction Megan Kizer, Supervising Improvement Partner https://vimeo.com/469415170
New book by Partners in School Innovation Alumni Two “alumni” of Partners in School Innovation, along with a third colleague, have recently published a book that will help strengthen your work for educational equity. Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12 is the second half of a two-volume set. The new
Partners CEO Elected to California Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees July 22, 2020 Partners in School Innovation is proud to announce that its CEO, Derek Mitchell, Ph.D., has been elected to the board of trustees of the California Academy of Sciences. Dr. Mitchell is joining a group of highly accomplished
CEO's Open Letter to Our School District Partners Dear School District Partners, Like you, I am receiving a lot of messages in this tough time, and they range from inspirational stories of solidarity to thinly-veiled efforts to monetize the crisis. At the risk of contributing to the e-clutter, I want
Partners publishes article on need for schools to be trauma-responsive One of our district partnership directors, Shawn Nealy-Oparah, has published an article in the January/February 2020 issue of Leadership, the magazine of the Association of California School Administrators. The article, “The Need for Schools to be Trauma-Responsive: Addressing and understanding
Partners’ Support Helps Bring About Strong Learning Gains in West Contra Costa, CA The Kennedy family of schools’ long tenure as the lowest-performing feeder pattern in West Contra Costa Unified School District appears to be ending as recently released test score data shows that academic achievement in most Kennedy family
Implementing Best Practices in a Professional Learning Network In partnership with the School District of Philadelphia and with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Partners in School Innovation began supporting a network of ten Philadelphia schools focused on improving math instruction in the fall of 2018. Partners has brought
2017-18 Annual Report Partners in School Innovation presents its 2017-18 Annual Report. Download to read about our successes working in schools and districts from the past school year.
Partners is named as a grantee for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Networks for School Improvement (NSI) initiative In the fall of 2018, Partners began supporting a network of ten Philadelphia schools focused on improving math instruction. The work was funded by a $500,000, fifteen-month grant from the Bill &
