Liposuction approach to school reform

08-10-2010

Guest blog by Kilian Betlach/Educated Guess

Kilian Betlach is the assistant principal at Elmhurst Community Prep, a small middle school in the Oakland Unified School District.

Last March, the California Department of Education released a list of “persistently low-performing schools” that would be part of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) process. Our school was on it. In the weeks and months that followed, as every day became increasingly dominated by our place on the list, our school community went through the Kübler-Ross grief cycle: Shock: Are you kidding? Elmhurst Community Prep has posted a net gain of 39 API points in three years, and stands 120 points higher than the last year of the since-reconstituted Elmhurst Middle School. (more...)

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