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2008 Conference

FOURTH ANNUAL STATE-of-the-RESEARCH CONFERENCE
JUNE 16 and 17, 2008

GETTING IT DONE:
Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps in Whole School Systems:
Recent Advances in Research and Practice

Major progress in raising achievement and narrowing gaps will require excellent school districts, not just a few exemplary schools. The June 2008 conference was a two-day workshop focused on the practical challenges of raising achievement levels and narrowing gaps in whole school districts.

 

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Presentations and discussions distilled lessons from research and practice for superintendents, school boards, district level administrators, civic leaders and others. Speakers were experts who have studied or implemented school or district improvement efforts and who, based on their work, can contrast and compare alternative approaches.

Each speaker was asked to do three things:

(1) draw key lessons from their own work;

(2) respond to a set of conference themes; and

(3) suggest some specific types of tools that need to be created or more widely disseminated (e.g., templates, protocols, blueprints for organizational structures).

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda

Videos and Presentations

Papers and Books

Conference Report

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