High Schools of the Future: Lessons from Reforming Schools

  Friday, January 20, 2006 
7:45 – 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 - 3:00 PM Conference

Hogan Campus Center
Holy Cross College
Worcester, MA 02108

Presented by the: 
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy
Center for Collaborative Education
Massachusetts Department of Education

Join us for a conference that will provide a forum for the administrators and faculty of large comprehensive high schools to learn about and share practices for creating high performing, academically challenging, and personalized schools that successfully educate all students.

Welcome
David Driscoll, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Education
 
Morning Keynote Presentation
Tom Vander Ark, Executive Director, Education Division, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Presentation of Research
Scaling Up: Reform Lessons for Urban, Comprehensive High Schools presented by the Rennie Center
Progress and Promise: Results from the Boston Pilot Schools presented by the Center for Collaborative Education

Luncheon Keynote Presentation
Kati Haycock, Director, Education Trust

Session Overview 

Districts and schools throughout New England are invited to attend this full-day conference which will include keynote presentations by Tom Vander Ark of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Kati Haycock of the Education Trust. In addition, high school pracitioners will lead morning and afternoon concurrent sessions on such topics as developing a college prep curriculum for all students, literacy across the curriculum, building a professional collaborative culture and creative scheduling to support high performance. The concurrent sessions will also include case studies of high performing high schools and stories from conversion high schools.

Teams of three or more are encouraged to attend. Districts and schools which send teams of three or more consisting of the high school principal, key teachers, and a district level administrator will be given first priority for registration. There is no registration fee for this conference. Participants will be registered on a first-come, first-served basis, up to a maximum of 300 participants.

REGISTRATION

This event is full to capacity. We are no longer accepting registrations for this conference.

About the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy 
The Rennie Center's mission is to develop a public agenda that informs and promotes significant improvement of public education in Massachusetts. Our work is motivated by a vision of an education system that creates the opportunity to educate every child to be successful in life, citizenship, employment and life-long learning. Applying nonpartisan, independent research, journalism and civic engagement, the Center is creating a civil space to foster thoughtful public discourse to inform and shape effective policy. For more information, visit us at www.renniecenter.org.