Turning High-Poverty Schools Into High-Performing Schools

<p><strong>Schools across the United States and Canada are disrupting the adverse effects of poverty and supporting students in ways that enable them to succeed in school and in life.</strong></p><p>In this second edition Parrett and Budge show you how your school can achieve similar results. Expanding on their original framework's still-critical concepts of actions and school culture they incorporate new insights for addressing <em>equity trauma </em> and <em>social-emotional learning.</em> These fresh perspectives combine with lessons learned from 12 additional high-poverty high-performing schools to form the updated and enhanced Framework for Collective Action.</p><p>Emphasizing students' social emotional and academic learning as the hub for all action in high-performing high-poverty schools the authors describe how educators can work within the expanded Framework to address the needs of all students but particularly those who live in poverty.</p><p>Equipped with the Framework and a plethora of tools to build collective efficacy (self-assessments high-leverage questions action advice and more) school and district leaders--as well as teachers teacher leaders instructional coaches and other staff--can close persistent opportunity gaps and reverse longstanding patterns of low achievement.</p>