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| District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Findings from Interviews and Site Visits |
| Moira McCullough; Luke Heinkel; and Betsy Keating
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| 发表日期 | 2015-08-31
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| 出版者 | Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | This document is an interim report examining the implementation of district-charter collaboration grants funded by the Bill \u0026 Melinda Gates Foundation. The report addresses three key research questions: (1) To what extent do schools and staff collaborate across sectors and how have grant activities influenced collaboration among participating staff through the first 12 to 15 months of implementation? (2) What contextual factors currently play a role in implementation of the collaboration grant and in cross-sector collaboration more broadly? (3) What have we learned about grant implementation midway through the grant period? What are the primary limitations of the grant or problems of practice that grantees report?", |
| 摘要 |
Key Findings:
- School co-locations or partnerships, intensive programs for aspiring leaders, and shared preparation for implementing Common Core standards have been among the most promising avenues for cross-sector collaboration to date.
- Teachers interviewed in all sectors are receptive to collaboration on average, but the proportion of teachers that grantee districts have involved in collaboration grant activities has been limited across each district. Continued rollout of activities to a wider percentage of teachers is one avenue to increase opportunities for collaboration.
- Leaders—at the city, central office, and school levels—are perceived to play a key role in promoting collaboration. Escalated conversation and action around cross-sector collaboration will depend on explicit support from these leaders.
- Limited time—especially school staff time—has been a crucial obstacle impeding cross-sector collaboration. The Gates Foundation and grantee districts might consider devoting resources to identifying specific opportunities to overcome time constraints, whether by offering collaborative opportunities in the summer months, incorporating them into existing professional development days, or otherwise.
Mathematica has been studying the implementation of Bill & Melinda Gates–funded district-charter collaboration grants since July 2013. In this report, we examine the grantees’ activities from December 2012 through winter 2013–2014, focusing on the direct participants in the collaborations. The main goal of the analysis was to understand whether and how collaboration—and the sharing of effective practices, in particular—was occurring on a small scale. Collecting and analyzing data from semistructured interviews with central office administrators and school principals, teacher focus groups, and observations, Mathematica found that several activities implemented in multiple sites show promise in spreading effective practices across schools and staff, but overall progress in increasing collaboration has been limited. |
| URL | https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/districtcharter-collaboration-grant-implementation-findings-from-interviews-and-site-visits
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| 来源智库 | Mathematica Policy Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/488241
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Moira McCullough,Luke Heinkel,and Betsy Keating. District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Findings from Interviews and Site Visits. 2015.
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