Podcasts about high performing schools

Rob Zimmerman is in his third year as Head of School at his alma mater, Cincinnati Country Day School. He was born in Dallas, lived in Atlanta as a young child, and grew up in Cincinnati since the 3rd grade (residing in Indian Hill, literally across the street from CCDS, where his parents still live and host Sunday family dinners). He is a proud 1998 graduate of Country Day, attended Vanderbilt University for his undergraduate degree (BA, English), and continued his studies at the University of Cincinnati College of Law (JD).Rob practiced as a commercial litigator at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP for 16 years, handling a wide range of business disputes, including breach of contract, corporate governance, securities, intellectual property, and real estate matters. He served on the board of trustees at CCDS for a number of years and stepped in as Interim Head of School in 2021. Following a national search process, he was appointed as Head of School. To quote Rob, "I feel outrageously lucky to be able to do what I do every day."

Charter school enrollment is on the rise across the country. So are charter school closings…That's why every charter school leader, board member and charter school proponent should read my new book, the first of its kind, 10 Indicators of High Performing Charter Schools. It's based on 20+ years of application and best practices research. Hear the origin story behind this birth of this book. #charterschools #highperformance

On this week's Education Gadfly Show podcast, Aaron Churchill, Fordham's Ohio research director, joins David to discuss how the Buckeye State's latest omnibus bill benefits education. Then, on Research minutes, Amber examines a study on whether attending high-performing charter schools reduces risky behaviors like drug use.Recommended content: “Ohio lawmakers pass historic policies on charter schools, private school choice, governance, and literacy” —Aaron Churchill “More dollars follow Ohio students” —Wall Street JournalRebecca N. Dudovitz et al., “Assessment of Exposure to High-Performing Schools and Risk of Adolescent Substance Use: A Natural Experiment,” JAMA Pediatrics (2018).Feedback Welcome:Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org.

Boise State University Professor Emerita, author and long-time educator Kathleen Budge finds parallels in her work and the findings of The Outliers Study that help define a roadmap for improvement in schools faced with large populations of students from low-income settings. Poverty and performance are not tied together and the keys to ensuring that lie in the culture of the schools serving impoverished students.

FAITH BORKOWSKY, JUDY BOKSNER, and MARY MCCOOL LET LOOSE IN THIS EPISODE.WHY? TOO MANY STUDENTS IN HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOLS MIGHT NOT RECEIVE THE LITERACY INSTRUCTION THEY NEED TO READ WELL.LITERACY FOR ALL IS OUR BATTLE CRYUNTIL EVERY PERSON CAN READLEAVE NO LEARNER BEHIND!

Kirk Koennecke is the Superintendent of the Indian Hill School District - a nationally renowned high performing school district located in Greater Cincinnati. A veteran educational leader with 16 years of experience in administration and 24 years of service to students, Mr. Koennecke came to the Indian Hill School District after serving as superintendent of the Graham Local School District in Central Ohio, where he led in that capacity since 2016. Prior to that position, Mr. Koennecke worked as a principal at multiple districts including Marion City Schools, Springfield City Schools, Barberton City Schools, and the Bedford City School District. In addition to his vast experience as a leader in education, Mr. Koennecke has also been a featured presenter nationally, and has published numerous articles within education publications. Mr. Koennecke earned his Master of Arts in Education and Superintendent Licensure from Wright State University (2014); his Master of Science in Education from John Carroll University (2005); his Master of Science in Sports Administration from Miami University of Ohio (1995); and his Bachelor of Science in Education from The Ohio State University (1994). He is a member of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), the Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA), and is the executive director of the Ohio Small and Rural Collaborative (OSRC). Awards: • Ohio State Strategic Leadership Innovation Award, 2019 • AASA Success Practices Network Model School, 2018 • Education Innovation Award, Urbana University, 2018 • Leadership Excellence+ Certified Trainer • Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt Certified • BASA Technology Committee • AASA STEM Consortium Advisory Member • Chapter Author: Rural Incubators in Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places, 2018, Edited by R. Martin Reardon • Author: Small Town STEM for District Administration, September, 2018, Volume 4, Number 77 • AASPA Human Capital Leader in Education Certification

SUPPORTING SEL  AND MENTAL HEALTH AT HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOLS ... Let's not forget the brightest kids in all this. They are under a lot of pressure to do well in trying circumstances. Thanks to our friends at TURNITIN we have Mark Erlenwein with us  who is the principal at Staten Island technical High School with advice based on experience. CLICK THRU  AND ENJOY OUR ONLINE JOURNAL 'EQUITY & ACCESS', THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF OUR AMERICAN CONSORTIUM FOR EQUITY IN EDUCATION AT ACE-ED.ORG. EVERYTHING WE DO THERE IS FREE TO EDUCATORS...SO JOIN US IF YOU CAN

On today’s episode of Catalysts for Change, we talk to Tim Daly, founding partner of EdNavigator. With nearly two decades of experience in public education, Tim has been an advocate in supporting public education and working to help ensure greater access of high quality schools to all families and assisting families understand and work with the public education system. As a founding partner at EdNavigator, Tim helps lead EdNavigator with the ultimate goal of supporting families and empowering them with access to high quality, on-demand support for a great education. Before founding EdNavigator, Tim served alongside Ariela Rozman as President of TNTP, a leading education nonprofit organization that partners with school systems and states to ensure that all students get excellent teachers. During his eight years in that role, TNTP became a leading source of innovative research and a respected independent voice on teacher quality issues. Tim first taught social studies at Northeast Middle School in Baltimore before joining TNTP.

What constitutes a school being "good"? Small class sizes? The latest technology? Pete Bylsma, Director of Assessment & Program Evaluation for the Mukilteo School District in Washington and co-author of the report 9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools explains why the answer is "none of the above".

Today we talk with Lisa Barrow, an acclaimed economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Lisa’s recent work explores the impact of work done by Chicago Public Schools to increase diversity in their schools, as well as the results of this work.   Chicago Public Schools faced a problem similar to BPS regarding diversity in their exam schools, and has developed a way to maintain diversity without having racial quotas. After a court mandate in the early 2000s forcing CPS to get rid of racial quotas at their selective enrollment high schools, CPS changed their admissions policies to consider both a tiered system comprised of factors about one’s neighborhood, socioeconomic status, and household composition, and a combination of test scores and grades.  This admission policy change has resulted in the student bodies at each of Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools being more reflective of the district at large. We explore in our podcast the impact these admission changes have had on the student body overall, including that students from the higher tiers (poorer neighborhoods) feel safer and report having better relationships with peers, but do not perform as well academically as students with similar tier and academic status who chose to attend schools outside of the selective school category. This topic is further detailed in The Elite Illusion, a study done by MIT on elite public schools, including BPS Exam Schools.

JAMA Pediatrics Editors' Summary by Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, and Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH, Editor of JAMA Network Open, for the December 3, 2018 issue

Interview with Rebecca N. Dudovitz, MD, MSHS, author of Assessment of Exposure to High-Performing Schools and Risk of Adolescent Substance Use: A Natural Experiment

Interview with Rebecca N. Dudovitz, MD, MSHS, author of Assessment of Exposure to High-Performing Schools and Risk of Adolescent Substance Use: A Natural Experiment

In this episode, Tom welcomes Aaron Jobson, a partner of Quattrocchi Kwok architects and board member of the Collaborative for High Performing Schools. Aaron discusses intelligent school design for more productive and inviting classrooms. Aaron introduces to how the school facilities can be crafted to meet the needs and wishes of all users.

In this episode, Tom welcomes Aaron Jobson, a partner of Quattrocchi Kwok architects and board member of the Collaborative for High Performing Schools. Aaron discusses intelligent school design for more productive and inviting classrooms. Aaron introduces to how the school facilities can be crafted to meet the needs and wishes of all users.

Ruth Ash & Pat Hodge joins Justin Baeder to discuss their book, Five Critical Leadership Practices: The Secret to High-Performing Schools.Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Purchase Ruth and Pat's book, Five Critical Leadership Practices: The Secret to High-Performing Schools. About Ruth Ash & Pat HodgeDr. Ruth Ash and Dr. Pat Hodge are Founding Partners of Education Solutions. Dr. Ash is a former superintendent and is a nationally known consultant focused on educational leadership and organizational effectiveness. Dr. Hodge is a former district administrator and is a national consultant working with administrators and teachers in developing student-focused instructional practices and cultures.

Lance Izumi Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies Senior Director, Education Studies Lance T. Izumi, J.D. is Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI), California’s premier free-market public-policy think tank based in San Francisco and Sacramento. He is the co-author of the groundbreaking book Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice (San Francisco, CA: Pacific Research Institute, 2007), which has been praised by publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Education Week. He is co-executive producer of the award-winning 2009 PRI full-length film documentary Not as Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School, which is based on his 2007 book. The film has been broadcast multiple times on PBS. He also appears in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s major 2010 education film documentary Waiting for Superman, which was voted best U.S. documentary at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. In 2008, The New York Times selected Lance Izumi to be one of its online contributors on the presidential race and education issues. In 2009, The New York Times posted “Sweden’s Choice,” a video op-ed which he wrote and narrated and which has garnered critical praise. He is also the co-author of the book Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools (San Francisco, CA: Pacific Research Institute 2005), which has been used as a guidebook for creating high-performing charter schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. 

 Lance Izumi is the author/co-author of numerous major PRI studies, including the "California Education Report Card: Index of Leading Education Indicators" (1997, 2000, 2003 and 2007 editions), "Failing our Future: The Holes in California’s School Accountability System and How to Fix Them" (2006), "Putting Education to the Test: A Value-Added Model for California" (2004). "They Have Overcome: High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools in California" (2002), "Facing the Classroom Challenge: Teacher Quality and Teacher Training in California’s Schools of Education" (2001), and "Developing and Implementing Academic Standards" (1999). Lance Izumi is a member of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation with nearly 3 million students. He served two one-year terms as president of the Board of Governors from 2008 through 2009, and in 2010 he received an award recognizing his leadership and service. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger initially appointed him to the Board in 2004 and re-appointed him in 2009. 

 In 2008, the United States Army appointed Lance Izumi to its Los Angeles/Southern California Advisory Board Executive Committee. In that capacity, he assists the Army with its community outreach, image enhancement, and recruiting efforts.
 In 2010, the Army’s Sacramento Recruiting Battalion named him president of its grassroots advisory council. In 2007, Lance Izumi was named to the California Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. In 2003, United States secretary of education Rod Paige appointed him to the Teacher Assistance Corps, a task force of experts assigned to review state teacher quality plans as they relate to the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

 He also served a five-year term as a commissioner on the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the state’s higher education coordinating body. Lance Izumi is the co-editor of two books: Teacher Quality (Hoover Institution Press and Pacific Research Institute, 2002) and School Reform: The Critical Issues (Hoover Institution Press and Pacific Research Institute, 2001). 

For ten years, he was a regular contributor to the "Perspectives" opinion series on KQED-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco. Prior to going into the think-tank world, Lance Izumi served as chief speechwriter and director of writing and research for California Governor George Deukmejian. He also served in the administration of President Ronald Reagan as speechwriter to United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Lance Izumi served as a commissioned officer, holding the rank of captain, in the California State Military Reserve, the state defense force that assists the California National Guard. He was attached to the Public Affairs Office at CSMR Headquarters in Sacramento. During his service, Mr. Izumi was awarded the commendation medal and the achievement ribbon.

 Lance Izumi received his juris doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Law and his master of arts in political science from the University of California at Davis. He received his bachelor of arts in economics and history from the University of California at Los Angeles. Related publications: * Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice * Putting Education to the Test: A Value-Added Model for Education * The California Education Report Card: 2003 * California Index of Leading Education Indicators: 2000 Edition * California Education Report Card: Index of Leading Education Indicators, 4th Edition * Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools * Failing Our Future: The Holes in California's School Accountability System and How to Fix Them * To Serve and Educate: A Handbook for School Board Members