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High School Conferences

Upcoming Conferences:
Information will be posted about upcoming conferences once they are confirmed

Past Conferences:
Massachusetts College & Career Readiness Leadership Summit (January 2008)
High Schools of the Future II: Lessons from Reforming Schools (October 2006)
College Knowledge? Standards for College Success (July 2006)
High Schools of the Future I: Lessons from Reforming Schools (January 2006)

Past Conferences:

High Schools of the Future I: Lessons from Reforming Schools (January 2006)

A joint conference sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE), the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policyand the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The goal of the conference was to provide a forum for administrators and faculty in large, comprehensive high schools to learn about and share practices for creating high performing, academically challenging, and personalized schools that successfully educate all students. There were presentations and a series of workshops.

Featured speakers included Tom VanderArk, Executive Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's education initiatives and Kati Haycock, Executive Director of the Education Trust.

Workshop Descriptions and PowerPoint Presentations

	Agenda/Program
	Scaling Up - Reform Lessons for Urban Comprehensive High Schools
	Progress and Promise: Results from the Boston Pilot Schools
	Case Study of a High Performing High School
	Stories of Conversion High Schools
	College Prep Curriculum for All
	The Boston Arts Academy Senior Project
	Creating a High Performing School Community
	Teacher-Coaches Newsletter
	Carnegie Schools for a New Society: Reflections on a National, District-wide High School Reform Initiative
	Improving Achievement and Closing the Gap between Groups in High School
	Literacy across the Curriculum
	Nine Points of Friction