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Neighborhood House Charter School
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Project for School Innovation
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617.825.0703 x261
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Neighborhood House Charter School
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Project for School Innovation
Phone:
617.825.0703 x261
Many of the most effective and promising practices in education have already been discovered in hundreds of individual schools by thousands of educators. There’s only one problem: It all stops there!
In pockets of success, individual schools, teachers, and students have made great strides towards fulfilling the goal of lasting change and improvements in student achievement. However, the broader goal of systemic reform has remained elusive and, at times, divisive, given the lack of proven structures for effective collaboration and professional support among schools.
Recognizing this challenge, the Neighborhood House Charter School launched the Project for School Innovation (PSI) in the fall of 2000. The mission of PSI was, and is, to create a teacher-to-teacher network for sharing effective practices and cultivating innovation in education.
Now, in its third school year, PSI is intimately involved with 16 charter and district public schools in the greater Boston area—working with innovative educators to identify, research, and document their school’s most effective practices, and then to share them with other educators through teacher-led workshops and books.
To date, PSI teacher leaders are offering five such workshops on effective practices from four successful urban schools. In the 2002-3 school year, PSI is working with educators from more schools to develop similar trainings and books on topics ranging from school leadership, to parental involvement. Both books and teacher-led trainings on these practices will be available to educators outside PSI’s immediate network (through on-site professional development workshops and at various national conferences) during the 2003-04 school year.
For more information about this growing network of innovative educators, working together to share their successes, address their challenges, and drive school change, please feel free to visit the PSI website at www.psinnovation.org, or to contact us at 617.825.0703 x261.
Success Stories
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