OUR WORK - Partners in School Innovation

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OUR EVOLUTION COMMITMENT TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT QUICK FACTS • Founded by Julien Phillips and Kim Grose in 1993 At PartnersSI, we systematically use what we learn from our hands-on experience in schools, cutting-edge research, and effective school reform examples to guide organizational progress. The chart below highlights key developments that have strengthened our position as a leading provider of services to improve low-performing schools and districts. • Established as one of California’s first AmeriCorps programs in 1994 • Partnered with 9 districts and 26 schools serving over 1,000 teachers and 19,000 students since 1993 • More than 175 AmeriCorps members – or Partners – have served over 400,000 hours in our schools • Average length of partnership with a school is over three years Our program has evolved from focusing on discrete school-based projects to leading and implementing systemic change from the classroom to the district office. In the last several years, we have also strengthened our program in the areas of literacy at the classroom level and results-oriented leadership at all levels. We are currently deepening our expertise in effective teaching for English language learners as well as results-oriented leadership at the district level. Our partnership strategy has moved from serving individual low-performing schools to forming integrated school and district partnerships focused on systemic and sustainable improvement. We are currently developing district-wide systems for leadership and teaching development together with our partner districts. Our measures of impact previously provided inconsistent evidence of student learning growth as measured by a range of local assessments. We now use standards-based assessments and are demonstrating significant learning gains for African American and Latino students in each of our partner districts. We are currently working with our schools and districts to drive toward achieving gap-closing results, not just incremental growth. Our school-site teams currently include a School Partnership Director (an experienced education reform leader) and a team of AmeriCorps Partners, recent college graduates committed to social justice and improving public education. As our program has become increasingly reliant on teaching and leadership expertise, we recognize the need for team members with significant education experience. Starting in 2006-07, School Improvement Fellows, individuals with urban teaching and graduate research experience, will replace AmeriCorps Partners. We want to express our great admiration for the AmeriCorps program and tremendous gratitude to all past and current AmeriCorps Partners for the proud legacy they leave. 4 | Innovation.Improvement.Impact.
“Partners in School Innovation has differentiated itself in two key areas. First, its school-based programs have helped to significantly close the achievement gap for low-income and language minority students. Further, through school change leadership and the dissemination of best practices, PartnersSI’s expertise and proven methodologies are now scaling up very rapidly.” -Mike O’Farrell, Vice President Global Community Affairs, Applied Materials Partners in School Innovation | 5
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