Matthew Cibellis
Events Content Manager, Education Week
Editorial Projects in Education
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Virginia B. Edwards
Editor-in-Chief, Education Week, and President,
Editorial Projects in Education
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Milton Chen
Executive Director Emeritus
George Lucas Educational Foundation
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An Education Revolution:
America’s Egypt Moment
Milton Chen in conversation with Virginia B. Edwards
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Maximizing Your Schools’ Staff
Resources to Advance
Student Learning
Andrés A. Alonso, Chief Executive Officer, Baltimore City Public Schools
Peter C. Gorman, Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
Moderator:
Maureen Kelleher, Contributing Writer, Education Week
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Rethinking Notions of School Time
and Class Size
Peter C. Gorman, Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Terry Holliday, Kentucky Commissioner of Education
Regis Shields, Human Capital Director, Education Resource Strategies
Moderator:
Sarah D. Sparks, Staff Writer, Education Week
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Lydia M. Logan
Senior Policy Director
The Broad Foundation
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In this economy, how can school districts
prepare all students for jobs of the future?
Lydia Miles Logan
Senior Policy Director
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
May 13, 2011
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, www.broadeducation.org,
is a national philanthropy that seeks to help urban school districts
produce dramatically higher student achievement and close
income and ethnic achievement gaps.
The foundation, which has invested $450 million in education
philanthropy in the last decade, is currently focused on investing
in leadership, innovation, policy and building institutional capacity.
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Our theory of change
What does it look like when an entire school district is
organized and run in a way that allows teaching and learning
to succeed?
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Our theory of change
School districts should focus all staff and resources on:
Student achievement
 Empower staff to make dramatic student gains and hold
them responsible for student growth
 All resources efficiently and effectively support teachers
and students
– “Everyone here is either a teacher or someone who
supports teachers” -- Gwinnett County Superintendent
Alvin Wilbanks, longest serving urban superintendent
Problem solving and continuous improvement (data,
strategize, measure progress, re-strategize if necessary, loopback… re-teach, re-teach, re-teach)
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Lessons learned
1. Teachers cannot do this work alone.
2. Leadership is critical.
3. Redesign districts to efficiently and effectively create
conditions under which students and teachers can
succeed.
• Create research-based, logical strategies to solve
problems.
• Articulate and communicate a mission.
• Measure results with accurate, meaningful data.
• Change what doesn't work. (loopback)
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“Continuous improvement” in action
Training future teachers, curriculum and instructional
strategies: Long Beach and area colleges synergistically
improve upon each other’s curriculum and instruction
Recruitment , selection and professional development: Teach
For America’s continuous improvement model
Professional development: Long Beach evaluates
effectiveness of professional development
Teaching relying on data: Gwinnett County, Ga. monitors the
effectiveness of data driven teaching
Interventions: Socorro’s online data-base allows for
continuous improvements to get at-risk kids up to speed
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Keep $ cuts away from classroom
Strategic prioritization: Align school and district resources with
strategic plan (Aldine, Oakland) district.
Operational efficiencies: Renegotiate contracts; be creative
with capital assets; remove duplicative central office roles;
benchmark operations against other districts; tighten food
ordering processes; put checks and controls in place to limit
equipment purchases and repairs (Miami-Dade, Denver and
Boston saved millions)
Technology: Adopt hybrid or blended models or call for state
policy changes on “seat time.” (Rocketship hybrid charter
school in San Jose, Calif.)
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Empower teachers and staff to succeed
Expand learning time: In Massachusetts, now 15 states considering
Data-driven teaching and re-teaching: Aldine and Broward County have online assessment
banks and proven lesson banks
Technology: Individualize instruction and cover basic skills (New York City’s School of One
model uses instructional algorithm for middle school math)
Standards and curriculum: Montgomery County, Md. and Gwinnett County, Ga. backmapped expectations from college level, standards higher than state
Meaningful staff evaluation system to drive improvements in teaching and learning: D.C.
teacher evaluation system, Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s performance management system
Principal freedom to select staff: Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s strategic staffing initiative
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For additional information visit our websites:
www.broadeducation.org
www.broadprize.org
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Districtwide Practices Proven to
Boost Student Achievement
Lydia M. Logan in conversation with
Virginia B. Edwards
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Digital Innovation In Education
Pamela Livingston, Product Manager, OnDemand Professional
Development, Tutor.com
Bailey Mitchell, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Forsyth County
Schools, Georgia
Todd Yohey, Superintendent, Oak Hills Local School District, Ohio
Moderator:
Ian Quillen, Staff Writer, Education Week and Education Week Digital
Directions
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National Policy Briefing
James Applegate, Vice President for Program Development, Lumina
Foundation for Education
Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President for Education Policy, Center for American
Progress
Susan Frost, Vice President, The Sheridan Group
Moderator:
Mark Bomster, Assistant Managing Editor, Education Week
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Ken Kay
Chief Executive Officer, EdLeader21 and the E-Luminate Group
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Leading 21st Century Districts:
A View 10 Year Out
Ken Kay in conversation with Virginia B. Edwards
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Upcoming Education Week Leadership Forum:
Boosting Student Achievement with
Education Technology
October 4, 2011
Philadelphia, Hyatt at the Bellevue
October 7, 2011
Chicago, Marriott Magnificent Mile
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