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Back on Track Report: How to Help Struggling High School Students Reach Common Core Standards

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There’s No “Normal”

We asked our school partners what they need this year...here’s what they said. As an organization that works to support educators and school leaders on everything from leadership development to culturally responsive sustaining practices, it’s critical that we pay...

Designing for the Future of Eskolta

At Eskolta, we believe in the power of design thinking. We use a researcher’s mindset and designer’s approach to engage schools and districts in continuous improvement projects and intentionally problem solve. Significant aspects of this type of thinking involve an...

Eskolta Fellows: Impact and Community since 2015

Eskolta Fellows: Impact and Community since 2015

Since 2015, the Eskolta School Improvement Fellows Program has supported and trained 101 fellows in four key areas: leadership, community, critical conversations about equity and race, and designing change in schools. The work of the Fellows Program mirrors the work...

Welcoming our New Executive Director Dr. Nada Ahmed

Welcoming our New Executive Director Dr. Nada Ahmed

Teacher. Researcher. Leadership coach. Racial justice facilitator.  Dr. Nada Ahmed brings a wealth of experience to the education field as both a leader and partner. Now, she’s taking on a new exciting role: Eskolta’s new executive director! We’re thrilled to welcome...

Black Lives Matter

Over the past few weeks and months, we have watched the tragedy of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and George Floyd be compounded by white supremacy in our institutions—police, district attorneys, courts—which have sought to...

Student-Led Action Research

Student-Led Action Research

“[This project] helped me with my growing, my team-leadership skills. It has definitely opened me up with feeling confident about making changes at my school.”When City-As-School student Nicholas Cannon was first searching for a summer internship in 2020, he wanted an...

The Four Ingredients to Transforming Learning

The Four Ingredients to Transforming Learning

I have walked into hundreds of classrooms in the last two decades. Picture two of them. In one, let’s call it the Interactive Classroom, the teacher moderates a student debate on whether it’s ethical to use DNA tests in family planning. In another, let’s call it the...

2019 Transfer School Conference Highlights

2019 Transfer School Conference Highlights

"Dr. Kirkland was awesome and inspiring! His speech on his transformative experience from childhood to adulthood was surreal and, beyond what I expected. Through Dr. Kirkland's brilliant presentation I learned about the power of being culturally competent, and how...

When Accountability Systems Miss the Mark

When Accountability Systems Miss the Mark

Six weeks ago, New York State identified one out of every four New York City transfer schools for Comprehensive School Improvement, a designation for struggling schools that requires them to implement a change plan to reach certain benchmarks. But the accountability...

Bringing Research to the Classroom

Bringing Research to the Classroom

“It brought a whole new layer to our work and really deepened our thinking. Instead of just saying to kids, ‘Well, work harder. Do more work,’ we actually had ways to think about this – ‘Is this work valuable to students? Do they feel like they belong in class? What’s...

Engaging Students in the Development of Their Own Growth Mindsets for Career Readiness

Engaging Students in the Development of Their Own Growth Mindsets for Career Readiness

How can schools help students develop a mindset that will support perseverance and lead to long-term career success? During the 2015–16 school year, the NYC Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Readiness (OPSR) partnered with Eskolta to launch the Career Competency Fellows program that brought together a select group of eleven educators from schools exhibiting a promising approach to career development for all students.

Honoring Those Changing Education in NYC

Honoring Those Changing Education in NYC

“For far too long, the debate in education focused on the supposed deficiencies of the students who walk through the doors, instead of putting the focus where it belongs—on the schools. Schools need to know what their students need to be successful, and then create...

Transfer School Conference 2017 Highlights

Transfer School Conference 2017 Highlights

“The advocacy work of transfer schools goes beyond being in the classroom and running schools. Being in a transfer school means consistently being a revolutionary about the work.” On June 8, 2017, more than 950 district and organizational leaders, teachers, students,...

Eskolta’s 2016 Annual Report

We are excited to announce the release of Eskolta’s 2016 annual report. This report shares the details of our continued and growing impact working with reflective and empowered educators to solve problems collaboratively and spearhead meaningful change. In 2016, we...

The Road to Standards-Based Grading Schoolwide

There are many steps that go into the development of a schoolwide standards-based grading system. At Murray Hill Academy, the Eskolta team has been working with department heads to launch a new system of rubric creation. In the past, every teacher in the building had...

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