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Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School

Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics: A School-wide Approach

Topics:	School Mission School Culture and Classroom Management Practices Instructional Practices Practices in Instructional Leadership
Mission:	The Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School is an urban K - 6 Science and Technology School, committed to excellence in Education. We believe all students can excel as learners and citizens when provided a rich, supportive, and stimulating educational environment. The BBCPS is the inspiration of concerned community leaders, parents, and educators, with the common vision and purpose of providing all Cambridge and local youth, regardless of race, culture, language or socioeconomic status with a high quality education.
Goals:	To share a successful community based response to raising student achievement in mathematics.
Summary:	Meeting a Math Achievement Crisis. This project documents and disseminates the school’s successful community-based campaign to raise student achievement in mathematics in 2003-04. School leaders published an article aimed at assisting school leaders, instructional leaders, teachers, parents, guardians and researchers understand the components of their efforts, and presented their experiences to educators in New Jersey. After successfully raising student achievement in mathematics during the 2003-04 school year, school administrators Lenora Jennings and Lori Likis published an article in the May 2005 issue of Educational Leadership to document their community-based approach to improving student achievement in mathematics. They were subsequently invited to present at the New Jersey Department of Education’s conference “Closing the Achievement Gap.”
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Dates:	01/01/2004
Contact:	Lori Likis, Director of School Improvement (llikis@banneker.org/617.497.7771)
Resources:	Meeting a Math Achievement Crisis published in Educational Leadership, May 2005.
Federal Charter Schools Program Funds?	No

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