Category: Innovation in Districts

In this guest post Jon Woloshin, an advisor at the project-based TAGOS middle school, describes how a group of teachers empowered to run the school built an assessment rubric that assists them as advisors to know when to add responsibility to the students’ work load.

A recent study of teacher-run schools describes those in Milwaukee—that are part of the Milwaukee Public Schools district, and where teachers belong to the local union.

Baltimore City Public Schools superintendent Andres Alonso has worked to change the culture of schools by altering the conditions in which they operate. In this case, by affording more control to the schools themselves, and holding them accountable. Conditions matter, for innovations small as well as large.

Pathways Early College Innovation High School is one of the two Innovation Schools that opened this year under a new Massachusetts law allowing for the creation of district schools with exemption from many rules and regulations. The school partners with Gateway to College to provide early-enrollment college options for motivated students that seek to expand their limits.