Educator and Community Voice

Building Trust: A Critical Element of Student Success Teams – Experiences of Three High School Principals in Chicago

A recent CoP session focused on the importance of trust building as teams use data to collaborate and improve experiences and outcomes for students. The event featured a trio of successful Chicago public high school principals, who were each asked, “What recommendations do you have for other principals on how to foster trust within student success teams?”
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Statement from GRAD Partnership on Biden-Harris Administration’s Improving Student Achievement Agenda for 2024 

The GRAD Partnership for student success is pleased to see a renewed commitment to improving attendance included in the Biden-Harris Administration’s Improving Student Achievement Agenda for 2024. The agenda specifically calls out “targeted parent and family engagement – such as home visits, the…

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Fostering Supportive Adult Relationships to Help Students Succeed: The Parent Perspective

Strong, supportive relationships, including those between “school adults” and parents/guardians, are one of the four key components of student success systems. Students benefit greatly from parental involvement, including parents’ relationships with principals, teachers, counselors, and IEP team members. When school and home adults trust each other as equal partners in supporting a child’s education, the solutions they develop to support a child can be informed by a holistic picture of the student – one that includes context from both in and outside the classroom.
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Early College High School Expansion at Redding School of the Arts

Redding School of the Arts (RSA), a charter school located in Far Northern California, believes that when it comes to young minds, art enriches, expands, and prepares them for a full life in useful and unexpected ways. RSA opened its state-of-the-art campus in 2012 and became the first in the world certified Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) school. Every aspect of the campus is purpose-built as a visual and performing arts school, with a focus on green architecture and sustainable use.
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