News
! In a July 15 letter to education leaders in the state, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville, announcing the successful launch of autonomous, in-district Innovation Schools, states, “Several partners have provided incredibly valuable support to districts and schools, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dan French, Dania Vazquez, Meenakshi Khanna, and other staff members at the Center for Collaborative Education....” (Read Secretary Reville’s full letter.)
CCE and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation release Ready for the Future, a study of performance assessments that uses retrospective graduate interviews to better understand how such assessments prepare students for their futures. (Read more…)
LAUTR Director Anita Moultrie Turner Receives the Community Torchbearer Award.
Read about our Building Quality Performance Assessments Initiative, and check out the BQPAI web site.
ATLAS Learning Communities joins CCE networks. ATLAS (Authentic Teaching, Learning, and Assessment for all Students) is a trailblazer in improving the performance of schools and school districts. (more…)
Critical Friends Group training is offered by CCE this summer in Boston or Springfield, from June 28 to July 1. PDPs and college credit are available. ( Full details and registration)
“Top 10 reasons why Pilots work better than traditional schools” are listed in a posted message by the President of the Los Angeles Board of Education, Mónica García, quoting Jeanne Fauci, director of the Los Angeles Small Schools Center. (Read the full message...)
Los Angeles chooses Pilots over Green Dot and other models. “After two-years of grassroots organizing to create awareness and gather support for the Pilot School model, InnerCity Struggle and the East Los Angeles Education Collaborative — comprised of community-based organizations, civic leaders, parents and students — are likely still celebrating their victory Tuesday [February 23, 2010] when the LAUSD School Board voted to approve all five pilots school applications for the new Esteban Torres High School, rather then just the three and two charter schools recommended by the district’s superintendent.” (See full story from EGP News.)
CCE has moved its home offices in Boston. As of February 1, 2010, our new address is 33 Harrison Ave., Sixth Floor, Boston MA 02111. (See travel and parking.) Our phone numbers and email addresses have not changed.
CCE, California State University-LA, and their partners announce the launching of the Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency (LAUTR), a 14-month apprenticeship-style program for training and credentialing new teachers.
Including Performance Assessments in Accountability Systems: A Review of Scale-up Efforts—The Nellie Mae Education Foundation and CCE are proud to bring you this field review. The purpose of this review is to understand previous efforts at scaling up the use of performance assessments across districts and states. Through systematic description and comparison of seven large-scale initiatives, as well as analogous efforts from teacher certification, medicine, and law, the paper identifies the strengths and vulnerabilities in each initiative. (More...)
As part of its School Turnaround research project, nationally respected Mass Insight selected and analyzed five cases across the country of “dramatic, comprehensive turnaround of America's worst-performing schools” to look at particularly promising approaches. They identify Duggan Middle School, in Springfield MA, as one of these “turnaround” cases. They single out CCE, Duggan’s supporting partner, for its approach and accomplishments. Read how Mass Insight describes CCE’s role in Duggan’s turnaround.
St. Louis announces creation of 5 Pilot schools. With support from CCE, St. Louis announces the creation of 5 Pilot elementary schools. (More...)
LA teachers union touts Pilots, praises CCE support. From the UTLA web site: “LAUSD is now the home to the Belmont Zone of Choice, an innovative pilot school program developed from the ground up by UTLA and a grassroots coalition of teachers and community groups.… In Los Angeles the innovative partnership was initiated by teachers and community members with the strong support from the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston, UTLA, and the Belmont Education Collaborative, a group of more than 25 local organizations.” (Read full article from UTLA.)
L.A. Pilot chosen as “Top of the Class" in national ranking. Newsweek magazine has selected the Los Angeles High School of the Arts as one of the top schools in the country, ranking it at #317 in its annual “Top of the Class" selection of best schools. That puts LAHSA in Newsweek’s top 1.3% of schools nationwide. LAHSA was created with close support from CCE.
Lack of Clarity Seen in Study of Boston Charters, by Dan French, letter in Education Week, February 11, 2009.
Theodore Sizer, an original CCE Board member, died on October 21, 2009, in his home in Harvard MA. He was a giant of American education reform. See: In Memory of Ted Sizer.
