What does Educational Equity Look Like in Action?
As school districts seek to find innovative and relevant ways to support students and families, they must ask the question–What will it take? In a recent article by District Administration, they took a look at At-risk School Success Stories – Succeeding Where Many Have Failed: How Administrators Turnaround School Districts. In this article, Jennings School District… Read More »
Capacity Building Journal Now Available
The Equity-Centered Capacity Building Network (ECCBN) recently released a journal, co-edited by MAEC’s Susan Shaffer, which addresses systems capacity building approaches that drive both equity and excellence. Read it online or download a copy to read later.
Early Bird Rates Available for MAEC’s 2016 Annual Conference
Be a part of something great. Join us for this unique opportunity to discuss and learn successful strategies for overcoming the challenges to student achievement. Conference Registration is Now Open!
New Report From Families in Schools
Families In Schools new report, “Ready Or Not: How California School Districts are Reimagining Parent Engagement in the Era of Local Control Funding Formula” finds that parents have been given unprecedented voice in the LCAP process, but engaging parents continues to be uneven from school to school and district to district. Read the full report.
EdSurge Shark Tank – Supporting English Language Learners in Literacy
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 5PM PST The focus of the evening will be about which company provides the best differentiated support for English Language Learners. This is a topic that is likely to touch all of us at some point as both educators and entrepreneurs; According to the National Education Association, “By 2025 nearly one… Read More »
School leader paves a more promising path
Educators often wonder what equity in the schoolhouse looks like? What do people see when they progress through a district or schools where equity, grounded in the knowledge of who their students are, really looks like? Here is an example of Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia and what Superintendent Luvenia Jackson is doing to… Read More »
Equity-Centered Capacity Building: Essential Approaches for Excellence & Sustainable Transformation of School Systems
The Equity-Centered Capacity Building Network (ECCBN) The ECCBN was formed to unite efforts and share resources and strategies among equity-and excellence-centered capacity builders and to increase the visibility and impact of capacity-building approaches that promote deep and sustainable school and systems change. MAEC and the Education Alliance at Brown University represent the equity assistance centers… Read More »
Families Reunite Workshop
USCRI, in collaboration with Baltimore City Public Schools and Fairfax County Public School is hosting a Families Reunite workshop to help sponsors support released unaccompanied children in their transition to the new home and community. Transportation, food and childcare provided. You must register in advance and it is first come, first serve. To participate and… Read More »
Free webinar Jan 21 – Engaging Families in Career & College Readiness
Free webinar January 21st, 2016, 2 p.m. ET Join MAEC’s Nora Morales as she discusses college/career readiness strategies that serve culturally and linguistically diverse and first generation students. Participants will hear from practitioners featuring two MAEC programs that successfully engage families in planning for their children’s future success. Click here to register.
Say goodbye to NCLB, hello to ESSA
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed December 10, 2015, by President Obama. The bill ensures that: states set high standards for college/career readiness; accountability is maintained for the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with high dropout rates, and schools were subgroups are struggling; there are fewer and better assessments; there is more… Read More »
