News & Events
Experienced Teacher Leaders Wanted to help establish the Boston Teacher Leadership Certificate
Boston teachers are regularly asked to take on a variety of formal and informal teacher leadership roles, yet they are often left on their own to develop the skills they need to succeed in those roles. BPE’s new Teacher Leadership Resource Center is seeking experienced teacher leaders to help establish a practice-based, credit-bearing seminar series that will support teachers in developing core teacher leadership skills and result in earning a Boston Teacher Leadership Certificate.
Boston Schools Honored for Using Data to Boost Student Attendance and Learning Results
The Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) this week honored two schools for their success in boosting student results while sharing their struggles and successes in the Making Data Public contest. Receiving first place and a prize of $2K was the Marshall Elementary School, and second place was New Mission High School (receiving $1K). Two additional schools, the McKay K-8 School and Community Academy of Science and Health tied for third place (receiving $500 each).
December 2009: BPE Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
For 25 years, the Boston Plan for Excellence has worked toward one goal -- excellence in every classroom, in every school, for every student in Boston.
December 2009: BPE Announces the Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium
The Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium - made up of the leaders of Boston charter, parochial, private, district, and pilot schools and METCO - has committed to learn from the best schools in the city so that every child in Boston has access to an excellent education.
March 2009: BTR Featured in Education Next
The Boston Teacher Residency is on of three highly selective and innovative teacher preparation programs featured in the spring issue of Education Next.
December 2008: Boston Awarded $1.5M Carnegie Grant
The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently awarded a, 18-month, $1.5M grant to BPE and the Boston Public Schools to help schools improve high school graduation rates. Together, BPS and BPE staff will support fifteen middle and high schools in an initiative called Accelerating Improvement through Inquiry (AI2) that will use structured, school-based cycles of inquiry to track student performance to data and accelerate improvements in student learning.
November 2008: Troubling Performance of BPS Grads in College
A new study from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern reveals troubling college completion rates for graduates of Boston's public schools. The first-ever report has generated intense dialogue and some new commitments from the district, local colleges, and community partners. Read more about it in November and December issues of School Clips.
JUNE 18: BPE Trustee Is Named Member and Chair of the State Board
Maura Banta, IBM's East Coast Regional Manager for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, also chairs the Mass Business Alliance for Education and serves on the boards of United Ways of New England, the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, and the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
Read more about the appointment at the Board of Elementary & Secondary Education website.
JUNE 3: BTR Makes the Finals for Innovations in American Govt Award
The Harvard Kennedy School’s annual competition drew more than 1,000 applicants this year, and BTR — the city’s in-district teacher prep program managed by the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence — was selected as one of 15 finalists. They’ll learn on Sept 9 whether they’ve won one of the six prestigious prizes, each with $100,000 for dissemination and replication. www.bpe.org/btr