Alec Patton talks to teacher High School teacher Karen Shaffran and student Alegria Vargas about how their class created a socially conscious cosmetics business, featuring products made from plants grown hydroponically in a storage room!

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Alec Patton talks to Tammy Unck, Maria Smith, and Uchenna Lewis about Bernal Intermediate School's work with part Partners in School Innovation on improving outcomes for multilingual learners, using techniques such as "shadow a student" and elements of the AVID curriculum.

The result was remarkable: During the 2022-2023 school year, Bernal achieved a 250% increase in the rate of multilingual learners reclassified to fluent English proficient status!

Check out Ivannia Soto's Shadowing Multilingual Learners**

Also Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton's Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals* *

What are you waiting for, register for the National Summit for Improvement in Education before you miss out!

Check out this Blog Post from Partners in School Innovation with resources for student shadowing and so much more!

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Alec Patton talks to Lincoln High School Principal Melissa Agudelo about the challenges of bringing exhibitions of student learning to a large urban high school, and how they made it successful by literally doing everything all at once.

Want do bring exhibitions to your school, or take your exhibition game to the next level? Check out our resources here!

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Alec Patton talks to Michael McDonald, Stephen Rinaldo, and Tarima Levine about how Yonkers Public Schools and Bank Street Education Center improved eighth grade math proficiency particularly for students who are Black, Latinx, or experiencing poverty.

Learn more about the curriculum Yonkers used, i-Ready Mathematics

Read this Case Study to learn more about Yonkers' work

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Alec Patton talks to PBLWorks Lead National Faculty in Math Bryon Demerson about why led him to shift from being a highly successful "traditional" math teacher to embracing project-based learning.

Read Bryon's blog post: Overcoming PBL Hesitancy in the Math Classroom: A Teacher's Journey

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Alec Patton talks to Dr. Kim Carter, superintendent of Battle Creek Public Schools in Michigan, about how her district broke a pattern of outmigration through building relationships with families and local businesses and nonprofits based on transparency and LOTS of conversations.

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Alec Patton talks to Paola Capó-García about "Politics of the Personal," the twelfth-grade English project she created in which students chose a topic of personal interest to write an essay about—and create a piñata

Read more of Paola's poetry

See photos from the project

Learn how you can do professional development with Paola and the rest of the team

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Bell Middle School reduced its D/F rate from 51% in 2022 to 28% in 2024. That's a 23 percentage point reduction.

Even more impressive, for low income students, the D/F rate was 67% in 2022, and Bell cut it by more than half, down to 29% in 2024.

In this episode, Alec Patton talks to science teacher Teddy Meckstroth about how they did it.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman
• How to do the 2x10 Strategy (article) (video)
• The CARE Network

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