Keeping the Promise

PSI is proud to have been a key collaborator on Keeping the Promise (KTP), a three-year U.S. Department of Education grant awarded to the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association (MCPSA). Over the course of three years we worked with five of the highest performing public charter schools in Massachusetts that serve high need, low income populations -- Boston Collegiate, Community Day, Academy of the Pacific Rim, MATCH, and Roxbury Preparatory* -- to assist them in identifying what makes them successful so they can serve as national models for dissemination and replication.

We designed, coordinated and helped facilitate Study Tours of these five schools for other public charter and district schools that are serving high need communities. Each full day Study Tour enabled 3-5 educators from a participating school to engage in classroom observations, an interactive workshop, action planning, and collaborative dialogue in order to strategically evolve one aspect of their Whole School Improvement Plan.                               

Study Tours and Action Planning provided a unique opportunity for inter-school, and specifically district-charter, collaboration. A book and video based on the project can be accessed as can the Whole School papers of each of these schools at Mass Charter and Public School Association.

Three of the five schools identified as high performing for Keeping the Promise are also PSI Model Schools and have published books about their successful practices.

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*identified by student population and academic criteria as set by the Center for Education Policy (CEP).