Ten cross-initiative practices worth sharing, from improving attendance to learning from good practice in context¶

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Description¶

The report concludes with ten practices worth sharing across initiatives: improving attendance, building good school climates, providing more student supports, fostering teacher collaboration, using teachers as coaches, expanding the role of teacher evaluation, enhancing leadership, using data more effectively, taking advantage of resources and technology, and learning from good practice in context. For attendance, the report found schools "building close relationships between students and adults, placing high expectations on parents for their children's attendance, and closely monitoring individuals to find them if they fail to come to first period." The authors argue mutual learning among initiatives will require conscious effort and district resources because initiatives operate in silos.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• District effort and resources to identify and distribute practices across initiative silos

Constraints¶

• Initiatives effectively operate in silos due to day-to-day logistics, crises, and institutional demands

Target Learners¶

• Chicago Public Schools high school students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Improved attendance, school climate, instructional quality, and data use in high school reform

Related Strategies¶

• Leaders should make data-based decisions to allocate resources on strategic and/or general leadership and climate based on level of measurement, implementation-specificity, and attitudinal dimension
• Use research-based turnaround leadership strategies to support a comprehensive turnaround initiative

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Daniel C. Humphrey, Patrick M. Shields. (2009). High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools: An Overview. SRI International / Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=High+School+Reform+in+Chicago+Public+Schools+An+Overview