The GSP Monthly Dispatch – August 2021
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August 2021
Welcome to the August issue of the GSP Monthly Dispatch! This month, we bring you:
- Invitations to join us for our Principals’ Professional Learning Group, our Educational Equity Community of Practice, and our next discovery session on race and racism.
- Ideas and insights on implementing multiple pathways, thoughts on teaching with grace, and one teacher’s experience with PLGs during Covid-19.
- Our recent report on creating equitable pathways—complete with videos, a framework, and implementation strategies by role.
- The NESSC Common Data Project Annual Report disaggregated by student characteristics across six indicators.
Visit our event calendar for a full list of upcoming events.
Educational Equity Community of Practice
Join a group of educational leaders, teachers, and community members who want to form an online community to support their own work around ensuring equitable outcomes for all students.
Dates: Monthly, beginning September 21, 2021
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Cost: $100-$500/person
Principals’ Professional Learning Group
Join us for our year-long Principals’ PLG. Together, we’ll learn from research, share dilemmas, examine work, and push and challenge each other.
Dates: Monthly, beginning September 23, 2021
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Cost: $550/person
Teachers Talk: Race and Racism In and Out of the Classroom
Join us for an afternoon of robust conversation. We will lean into our own racial identities, learn about race and racism in America, and lead by committing to steps that challenge and change inequitable practices.
Date: October 28, 2021
Time: 1:00-4:00 PM ET
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Cost: $150/person
Multiple Pathways: How Schools Ensure Doors to Opportunity Stay Open
By Kate Gardoqui
“. . . in schools across the country, creative teachers are working with imagination and resourcefulness to ensure that while the shutdown has closed many doors, it cannot close all of them.”
Leaving a Legacy by Teaching With Grace
By Christina Horner
“There is no profession or vocation more noble, more powerful, or of greater influence than teaching…[But] with great power comes great responsibility: We must teach with grace.”
The Value of Professional Learning Communities During COVID-19
By Dawn M. Stone
“2020 will forever leave an indelible mark on all of us. Despite the challenges, I will think fondly of the different kind of relationships we forged with our students, as well as with the people in my PLC.”
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on missed reading. We recently published our latest report: “Creating Equitable Pathways to Ensure Civic Engagement and College and Career Readiness for All Students.”
From the introduction:
“When all students, but in particular our students who have been most underserved, are guaranteed to graduate with skills that transfer across disciplines, experiences and credentials that qualify them for employment in well-paying careers, and the ability to take in and critically examine the vast quantities of competing information available in today’s social and political environment, the American promises of social mobility, liberty, and self-actualization may be realized.”
To learn more about pathways and get implementation strategies, read the report online or download the PDF.
The NESSC Common Data Project Annual Report provides transparent, comparable data about high school and college outcomes from across the New England states. We began tracking high school graduation and dropout rates in 2009. Since then, extended high school graduation rates have been added as well as college enrollment, persistence, and completion measures.
Disaggregating the data by student characteristics across all six indicators allows us to examine educational equity in New England secondary school outcomes by economic disadvantage (ED), English learner status (EL), gender, disability status, as well as race and ethnicity.
Check out the disaggregated data above or download the complete report by clicking the button below.
Thanks for reading! See you next month.
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