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Seattle Public Schools and
Seattle Education Association entered into a shared commitment to
close the achievement gap and to make necessary systemic changes
required to accomplish this. Strategies include:
 Identify a subsets of schools in
greatest need of extraordinary measures to close the achievement
gap;
Provide those schools with
resources to make these changes;
Provide teachers and other building
staff in those schools with tangible incentives to do the work and
make the changes required;
Currently two subsets of
schools (Flight One and Flight Two) have been
identified.
Schools in Flight I : Rainier
Beach, Aki Kurose, African American Academy, Rainier View, Emerson,
Dunlap, Brighton, Wing Luke, and The New School.
Schools in Flight II: Chief
Sealth, Denny, Arbor Heights, Concord, Gatewood, Highland Park,
Roxhill, Sanislo.
Goals of this project are to
provide concentrated resources and professional development at
designated schools in order to close the achievement gap. The focus
of these efforts will include:
Work with school staff in each
school and across the flight to build professional learning
communities as a research based means for professional
development;
Engage in a concentrated effort to
improve family and community partnerships;
Improve instructional strategies
for all students through curriculum alignment to promote consistent
standards based expectations across the flight.
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