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Below is a link to a blog written by Anthony Cody, a member of the national faculty of the Buck Institute of Education who was on campus about a month ago with the rest of the national faculty team. I was pleasantly surprised upon reading this because  it does a thoughtful job of highlighting the [...]

Project Summary: IDEO.org is working with the Architecture, Construction & Engineering (ACE) Leadership School to understand the role of community engagement and consider new ways the school might improve and systematize feedback loops between itself and the Albuquerque community. Story Title: What Would Tony Do? Story Summary: IDEO.org Fellow Marika Shioiri-Clark describes a new IDEO.org [...]

Anticipation Was it more like the Final Four of March Madness or a roller coaster ride at Six Flags? There were lots of students with sweaty palms as if they were about to hurl down a fifty foot drop. However, I think it was probably more like the queasy stomach they might get before playing [...]

On February 17, we launched the New Mexico Center for School Leadership, Networking and Redesign. Our first formal activity was to host all of the new New Mexico charter school applicants for two days to help them imagine the most innovative solutions to design challenges they face. We were heartened by our guests’ passion for [...]

“Will the students at your school be better off than the students who attend other schools in your community?” You should not start a school unless you can answer “yes” to this question. However, the truth is that new schools have little to go on when they make predictions about their future performance. Also, unless [...]

I have been reading a lot about the future of Career and Technical Education (CTE) lately and I must say that I do not understand where this sector of our public education system is headed. Maybe that is because I don’t know much about that world from personal experience. I never took shop in high [...]

Dear Friends, A few months ago I was invited to be in the first class of Sizer Fellows by the Forum for Education and Democracy and I just returned home from my first meeting with the three other school leaders from around the country.  This is a particular honor for me because Ted Sizer was a luminary [...]

In 2010-11, the results of our short cycle assessments were staggering.  The number of students who became proficient in our inaugural year in Reading and Language Usage doubled from roughly 33 percent to nearly 70 percent, and Math proficiency rose from 7 percent to 81 percent!  In addition, roughly 50 percent of our students are [...]