The GSP Monthly Dispatch – January 2022
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January 2021
Welcome to the January issue of the GSP Monthly Dispatch! This month, we bring you:
- Your last chance to register for our next discovery session on building more equitable advisory systems
- An invitation to join our four-part virtual series on planning for change in your school or district
- Three tools from our toolkits for educators and school communities: learn about grading and reporting for educational equity, explore the case for community engagement, and check your equity pulse
- An opportunity to share your thoughts and insights about the Common Data Project’s 2021 Annual Report—a deep dive into high school graduation and dropout rates, as well as college enrollment, persistence, and completion measures from across New England
Building a More Equitable Advisory System
If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that strong relationships between students and school staff members are critically important. During this virtual discovery session, participants will learn how advisory systems can improve outcomes for all students. Participants will also examine effective middle and high school advisory structures in order to build or refine their school’s or district’s own advisory system.
Date: January 26, 2022
Time: 1:00-4:00 PM ET
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Cost: $150/person
Planning for Change in your School or District
Join us for this four-part virtual series is designed to help teams of three to seven participants envision, design for, and begin to enact the steps necessary to make specific and meaningful improvements in their schools or districts. This is not broad strategic planning; this is targeted movement on a specific goal that is essential to the work of educating all students.
Dates: February 9, March 2, March 16, April 6
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM ET
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Cost: $1,500 per team
Grading and Reporting for Educational Equity
This guide is intended to highlight the central practices that schools can use to ensure that their grading and reporting systems help them build a nurturing, equitable, creative, and dynamic culture of learning.
The Case for Community Engagement
Equitable community engagement—an ongoing, two-way process of building relationships, working collaboratively to support all students, and sharing power—can also result in transformative benefits for schools and school districts
Equity Pulse Check
The purpose of the Equity Pulse Check is to engage all stakeholders, as equal partners, in conducting a critical review of their school’s performance based on a few of the Great Schools Partnership’s Indicators of Educational Equity.
Assignment for schools: Increase teacher diversity
“But being an educator of color can be isolating in predominantly white New England. That’s where Hazel comes in. A big part of her role will be building a support system through social gatherings, drop-in hours where staff can ask her for help on any front, and a mentoring program that pairs younger staff of color with those who are more experienced.”
The Common Data Project Annual Report provides transparent, comparable data about high school and college outcomes from across New England. By disaggregating the data by student characteristics across six indicators, we can examine educational equity in regional secondary school outcomes by economic disadvantage (ED), English learner status (EL), disability status, gender, as well as race and ethnicity.
Are you an educator, administrator, parent or caregiver, researcher, student, policymaker, or any other stakeholder with an interest in educational equity? Have you looked at this report? Do you use the data? Then we want to hear from you! Please share your feedback about the Common Data Project Annual Report. By sharing your insights, we hope to continuously improve how we report the data and convey our insights to better serve you.
This survey is open to all. Please feel free to share it widely.
Thanks for reading! See you next month.
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