Jon Saphier
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Let's get specific about how leaders can build trust
School leadership literature repeatedly identifies trust as essential for creating high-gain schools — schools where student gain scores are more than one year’s worth of achievement at a given grade level. These are schools that get results beyond what their demographics would have predicted (e.g. Bryk & Schneider, 2002; Bryk, […] -
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The Equitable Classroom
We are sliding backward. Our country’s schools are, in some cases, as segregated now as they were when Earl Warren’s Supreme Court handed down the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision 63 years ago. In fact, according to new federal data, poor black and Hispanic children are becoming more […] -
Book Club
High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on "Smart is Something You Can Get" By Jon Saphier High Expectations Teaching is an assets-based approach to advancing student achievement by helping students believe that "smart is something you can get" and that one's ability to do something is […]
