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- Supporting Students to Reach High Standards
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- Building Supportive High Schools
- Creating Professional Learning Communities
- Becoming a Community School
- Learning After School
- Supporting At-Risk Students
- Including Every Parent
- Calculated Success
- Skills for Success
- Cultivating Student Reflection
- Building Character
- Create Your Own KidLab
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Model School Study Group
"A motivating experience."
"This group has made me feel like an important part of a team. It made me feel proud to be a teacher at my school."
A Model School is one that is meeting or exceeding academic expectations, practices teacher leadership and has a strong culture of community. Teachers from one successful school - either a district or charter public school - engage in research and discussion to better understand the effective practices that are leading to their success. The process begins with a whole school survey as an organizational self assessment. Then there is a series of sessions in which a representative group of faculty engage in dialogue in order to explore and describe the practices at their school. Following these discussions, participating faculty have worked with PSI staff to develop a book and offer coaching based on their practices and reflections as PSI Associates.
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Following is a list of PSI Model Schools along with their publications:
Whole School Paper (Publ. 2007, link)
Supporting Students to Reach High Standards (Publ. Nov. 2007)
Building Character (2002)
Boston Day and Evening Academy, Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School, Champion Charter Public, and Amesbury Academy of Strategic Learning
Building Supportive High Schools (2006)
Richard J. Murphy School
Creating Professional learning Communities (2005)
Robert L. Ford NASA Explorer School
Becoming a Community School (2004)
Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School
Supporting At-Risk Students (2003)
Whole School Paper (Publ. 2002, link)
William Henderson Inclusion Elementary School (formerly O'Hearn Elementary)
Including Every Parent (2003)
Including Every Child (2001)
Boston Collegiate Charter School
Whole School Paper (Publ. 2007, link)
Learning After School (2003)
Roxbury Preparatory Charter School
Whole School Paper (Publ. 2007, link)
Calculated Success (2003)
Cambridgeport School
Cultivating Student Reflection (2003)
Neighborhood House Charter School
Create Your Own KidLab (2002)
Measuring Success (2001)
Whole School Paper (Publ. 2002, link)
Skills for Success (2002)