Keeping the Promise

PSI is now in its second year of collaboration in Keeping the Promise (KTP), a three-year U.S. Department of Education grant awarded to the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association (MCPSA). Last year, 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.

In the current phase of the project, we are coordinating and helping to facilitate Study Tours of one or more of these five schools for other public charter and district schools that are serving high need communities. Each full day Study Tour will enable 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.                                  Click here to download an informational flyer.

Study Tours also provides a unique opportunity for inter-school, and specifically district-charter, collaboration.

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.

Please click here to learn more about Keeping the Promise or if your school is a district school interested in attending a Study Tour, free of cost, in the Fall of 2008.

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