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“She’s learning but we’re both teachers”: Mentorship Stances and the Development of Learning Partnerships in Student Teaching Placements
(2022-10-28)
In August of 2021, High Tech High Graduate School of Education welcomed Cohort 4 of the San Diego Teacher Residency (SDTR), a teacher preparation program embedded within the sixteen schools of High Tech High (HTH), a San ...
A Foundation of Trust: Building Bridges Across the District to Support School Leaders in Boston Public Schools
(2021-10-15)
As home to the oldest elementary and high schools in the United States, Boston has always been one step ahead of the rest of the country in education policy. Amid the calamity, strife and uncertainty of 2020, Boston Public ...
Learning from the Students Not Yet in the Room: Using Inclusion Planning to Promote Organizational Learning, Equity, and Innovation
(2022-05-06)
The American preK-12 education system is struggling. Challenges resulting from navigating the global pandemic, the growing consciousness of the education system’s role in perpetuating cycles of inequity for students furthest ...
Charting a New Path for Curricula Design by Centering the Experiences of Communities
(2022-10-28)
In summer 2021, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) announced the development of a rigorous, inclusive, and affirming K-12 English Language Arts and Math curricula. At this moment in time, an off-the-shelf ...
Redesigning the Role of the Principal: Mobilizing and Organizing the Field to Lead for Racial Equity
(2021-10-15)
The mission of the Education and Society Program (ESP) Team at the Aspen Institute is to improve public education by informing, influencing, and inspiring education leaders across policy and practice, with an emphasis on ...
District Learning Visits: How Districts can Organize to Learn for High-quality Instruction
(2022-10-28)
Historically, the role of district central offices has been to efficiently execute policy and compliance demands around enrollment, funding, licensure, facilities, and academic standards with little attention to the processes ...
Cultivating Culture in Crisis: Developing State Education Agency Leaders at the New Mexico Public Education Department
(2021-10-15)
The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) administers state and federal education laws, allocates state and federal resources, and provides guidance to 877 schools in 89 districts. Historically, New Mexico has been ...
Beyond ‘Hire and Hope’: Leading Instructional Improvement across a Rural School District
(2022-10-28)
Most school districts lack a coherent, actionable strategy for improving teaching and learning across the system. Current instructional improvement strategies enacted in many districts could best be described as hire and ...
Social Change through Innovation and Product Leadership: an Expansive View of Social Impact
(2022-10-28)
This capstone details my learning and experience leading product innovation for a Quincy, Massachusetts-based nonprofit hybrid incubator called QUBIC Labs, and for QUBIC’s portfolio companies. For my residency, I was tasked ...
Challenges to Capturing and Sharing Knowledge in a Fast-Growing Consulting Organization
(2022-10-28)
This capstone examines my residency with a national nonprofit pursuing educational equity in three key ways: partnering with school systems to help them ensure that effective teaching is happening in every classroom (its ...