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What’s Working to Narrow Academic Achievement Gaps Post-Pandemic: Insights From School Districts and Partners
When we speak of gaps in our education system, we mean those related to access, opportunity and achievement that too many students — especially students of color and who live in economically challenged families — have historically experienced and continue to experience.
With this focus on gaps — and more importantly, what we can do to close them — I am looking forward to this upcoming webinar on what’s working to narrow academic achievement gaps post-pandemic. We are inviting back three superintendents — Adrienne Battle, Ed.D., in Nashville, Mark Sullivan, Ed.D., in Birmingham and Tony Watlington, Ed.D., in Philadelphia— who joined us last month to share the specific systems and strategies they are using in their districts to identify and narrow gaps between low-income students and their wealthier peers, special education and general education students, and other groups. Also joining us for this session is superintendent of Baldwin County School District in Georgia, Noris Price, Ed.D. These superintendents have each made progress in narrowing access, opportunity and academic achievement gaps. In this webinar, they will drill down into how they are tracking and supporting specific groups of students to narrow these gaps.
Please join us on May 14, from 3−4:30 p.m. ET, to hear from these superintendents and district partners.
- Battle will share how the district’s initiative, Metro Schools ReimaginED, engages stakeholders across the city to support students, as well as how their mantra of “every student known” and their personalized student data dashboard enables them to track and support each student toward success.
- Price will describe the specific gaps she is focusing on in her rural district and her progress in addressing these that has led to her being recognized as the 2022 Georgia Superintendent of the Year.
- Sullivan will talk about his success in adding instructional time through week-long intersessions, and how he leverages community resources for tutoring and other initiatives that contribute to learning recovery and the closing of achievement gaps.
- Watlington will describe how he grounds district investments in research and how the district’s four conditions for success, including student and teacher attendance, are driving academic achievement.
- Dontrelle Young Foster of the Housing Authority of Birmingham and Jenny Bogoni of Read by 4th and the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation will weigh in on their organizations’ roles as partners for supporting district initiatives.
