2008 EdSource Forum: Session 1--Interventions

When Bold Steps Are Needed: What Does it Really Take to Turn Around Schools?

Speakers:

• Presenter: Andrew Calkins, Senior Vice President, Mass Insight Education & Research Institute, talks about their groundbreaking new national research: The Turnaround Challenge: Why America's Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst Performing Schools.
• Interviewer/moderator: Susan Burr, CEO, California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA), provides basic info about California's schooland district intervention programs.
• Discussant: Randolph Ward, Superintendent, San Diego County Office of Education, responds to these bold new intervention ideas from his own experience in California.

Video:

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In addition to this discussion, the Forum included the following sessions:

• Session #2: Data
• Session #3: 2008-09 Budget
• Session #4: Finance Reform

Presentation Slides:

• Click here to see Andrew Calkins' presentation slides. (PDF 1.4 MB)
• Click here to see Sue Burr's presentation slides. (PDF 172 K)

Resources Related to Interventions:

What does it take to turn around schools and districts?

• Worthy Goals, Limited Success: Intervention Programs in California
  This 16-page EdSource report looks at the history and evaluations of the state's intervention programs.
• Turnaround Challenge
  Mass Insight Education & Research Institute is an independent non-profit that organizes public schools, higher education, business, and state government to significantly improve student achievement. This report focuses on school turnaround design.
• Managing More Than a Thousand Remodeling Projects: School Restructuring in California
  This national policy group looks, in a Feb. 2008 report, at California's turn-around efforts in response to NCLB.

Click here to find substantive background resources related to all the topics discussed at the 2008 Forum.

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