School may still be out for students, but many principals and teachers are hard at work learning this July and August. The summer is a time many schools are using to focus on adjusting their practice to the new Common Core standards and collaboratively plan.
Millard McCollam Elementary is a neighborhood public school in East San Jose’s Alum Rock School District serving primarily low-income students. It might look like a typical school. However, its academic results are far from typical: 82 percent of its students were proficient in English and 87 percent in math in 2013-14. What’s the secret?
It’s more important than ever that students graduate with the knowledge and skills to attend college. But what does it mean to be ready for college? That’s the question we’ll be exploring in this series for parents.
Elementary school learning is like building a house—the concepts your child learns early on will serve as the foundation for everything that comes after. Catching up later is a lot harder than keeping up. So what should parents of young children focus on?
In July 2015, Innovate Public Schools led the first-ever National Parent Leader Institute. For three days, more than 70 incredible parents from across the Bay Area, Nashville and Washington D.C. came together to learn how to build powerful, parent-led organizations in their communities that can effectively advocate for great public schools.