• Task Force on Black and Latino Young Men and Boys
  • Latine Stakeholder Voices: We Asked and We Listened!: Denver Public Schools
• Task Force on Black and Latina Young Women and Girls
  • Empowering Future Leaders: The Impact of Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School on Latina and African American Females in STEM
• Task Force on English Learners and Bilingual Education
• Alright, Alright, Alright: Strengthening Student Mental Health and Wellness in Urban Public Schools
  • Clark County School District A Public School on the St. Jude's Ranch Campus: A Partnership
• Best of the Best: Using Data and Evaluation Tools to Develop Highly Effective Urban School Teachers
  • El Paso Independent School District: Trend Walks; Evidence-based Academic support From Theory to Action
• District Hold ‘Em: Keeping Teachers in Urban Schools by Addressing Burnout
  • New Orleans Public Schools: Joyful Educator: Creating Conditions for Teacher to Stay
• Follow the Leaders: Giving Urban Principal Supervisors the Training and Tools Needed for Success
  • Dallas Independent School District: Onboarding Principal Supervisors for Success
• Not Their First Rodeo: Transforming Experienced Instructional Staff Into Great Urban School Leaders
  • Dallas Independent School District: Empowering Excellence: Dallas ISD’s Leadership Pipeline for Excellence & Equity
• Saddle Up: Recruiting, Retaining and Paying High Quality Urban School Teachers
  • Omaha Public Schools: Optimizing Teacher Experience: Data-Driven Solutions for Teacher Retention
• Safe and Sound: Implementing Anonymous Reporting Systems to Improve Urban School Safety
  • Long Beach Unified School District, Sandy Hook Promise: Long Beach Unified School District: Empowering Upstanders and Trusted Adults to "Support the Personal and Intellectual Success of Every Student, Every Day
• Transforming for the Future: Implementing Best Practices Around Curriculum and Instruction
  • Omaha Public Schools: The Art and Science of Curriculum Adoptions and the Best Laid Plans and Adjustments
• Unity in Diversity: How Great City School Districts are Centering Efforts on Equity
  • New Orleans Public Schools: Educational Equity: Leadership in Turbulent Times

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• Joint Task Force Meeting on Black and Latina Young Women and Girls & Black and Latino Young Boys
  • Leadership in Education, Loving, Supporting & Empowering Black and Brown Boys, Metro-Nashville Public Schools
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  • Black Student Achievement Plan, Los Angeles Unified School District
• Achievement/Professional Development Task Force Meeting
• School Finance/Leadership, Governance and Management Task Force Meeting
• English Language Learners and Bilingual Education Task Force Meeting
• Blue Ribbon Corporate Advisory Group Meeting

Concurrent Sessions - Wednesday, October 25, 2023

• Sky High: How Principals and School Leaders are heightening Urban Schools
  • Guilford County Schools Data Collaboration Through Cross-Department Partnership for Principals’ Meetings
  • Tulsa Public Schools Applying the Continuous Improvement Process to Improve Leadership Development and Student Achievement at Tulsa Public Schools
  • Portland Public Schools Transforming Leadership Professional Learning to Foster Equity Centered Leadership
• Setting Sail for Improved Student Outcomes in Urban Districts: Why Governance Matters
  • Dallas Independent School District The Power of Student Outcomes Focused Governance
  • San Antonio Independent School District The 3 Gs: Governance, Goals & Guardrails
  • Norfolk Public Schools Adopting a Focus Mindset - Giving up for Students
• Developing Interoperability Practices in Great City Schools
  • Tulsa Public Schools Return on Investment as a Leadership Mindset – An Example of Using Data to Track Efficacy of Educational Software Purchases
• Changing Tides: The Promotion of Equity Focused Leadership and Instruction Strategies in our Great City Schools
  • Baltimore City Public Schools Troubling the Ecosystem: Equity-Centered Leadership in Baltimore City Public Schools
  • Chicago Public Schools Implementing an Equity-based MTSS Framework in a large urban school system
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Don’t Remain Where You Are: Equity 2.0
• Sunrise: Strengthening Early Childhood Education in Urban Schools
  • Newark Public Schools Conception to Cradle to Age 3
  • Toledo Public Schools Bridging the PreK-3 Gaps in Curriculum and Instruction
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Grow Together with MNPS
• Behind the Scenes: Successful Facility and Transportation Operations in City Schools
  • Columbus City Schools Student  Success Cards: Leveraging New  Integrations to Remove Barriers
  • Wichita Public Schools The Importance of Facility Condition Index (FCI) and its Relationship to Student Performance and Instruction
• Feeling Groovy: Expanding Opportunities to Address Urban Student Mental Health and Wellness
  • Arlington Independent School District Transforming Students’ Social & Emotional Well-Being & Igniting Learning Through Clinic-Based Counseling Services
  • Atlanta Public Schools Learning Starts with Wellness: Embedding Access to Care into the MTSS
  • Milwaukee Public Schools COVID and Suicide - Lessons Learned in Prevention and Intervention
• Bang for the Buck: Spending Urban School Resources Wisely and Effectively
  • Clark County School District Ensuring Impactful (and On Time) Investments of ARP ESSER Dollars
  • Fort Worth Independent School District Academic-Return on Investment (A-ROI)
  • Jefferson County Public Schools Conduct End of Investment Reviews to Improve Coherence and Efficacy of Strategies
• With Distinction: Creating More Gifted and Talented Options in Urban School Districts
  • Los Angeles Unified School District Equitable Access to Gifted and Talented Education: Operationalizing Systemic Policies and Effective Practices to Address Underrepresentation of Diverse Learners
  • Milwaukee Public Schools Increasing Access and Diversity to Gifted and Talented Programing
  • Omaha Public Schools Expanding English Learner Access to Specialized Programs
• Building Inclusive and Supportive Programs for Urban Students with Disabilities
  • Orange County Public Schools: Are your Special Needs Students Ready for Life After High School?
  • Santa Ana Unified School District: Integration to Transformation: One Large Urban School Districts CARES Model to Reduce Non-Public School and Residential Treatment Center Placements
  • Los Angeles Unified School District A Place They Belong: Increasing Inclusive Opportunities for Students With Disabilities
• Prologue: Best Practices in Early Literacy Instruction in our Great City Schools
  • Baltimore City Public Schools: Baltimore and Beyond: Early Literacy Coaching in City Schools
  • Chicago Public Schools: Ready for Kindergarten? An analysis of CPS PK and K Early Literacy Data
  • Portland Public Schools: Implementing the Science of Reading through High Quality Instructional Materials in Portland Public Schools
• Welcome Center: Helping Newcomer and ELL Students Succeed in Urban Public Schools
  • Clark County School District: Nuestros Sueños No Tienen Fronteras: A Comprehensive Approach to Supporting Newcomer and Undocumented Students and Families
  • Dallas International Academy- Developing a Newcomer Academy within a Comprehensive Urban High School
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: L.A. Unified’s Multilingual Multicultural Academic Language Coach Program
• Federal Legal Updates Impacting Urban Schools
  • Impact of the Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action in Higher Education  
• High Tide: Lifting Up Principal Supervisors and School Leaders in our Great City Schools
  • Columbus City Schools: Principal Supervisor as Instructional Leaders and Developing Equity-Centered Leaders
  • Orange County Public Schools: Effective Principal Supervision Practices: Connecting Leader Coaching to Student Outcomes
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: Preparing School Leaders with an Equity & Coaching Lens
• How Ethnic Studies Coursework and Cultural Arts Programs are Meeting the Needs of Diverse Urban Students
  • San Diego Unified School District: Ethnic Studies SKILLS w/ English Language Development
  • Santa Ana Unified School District: Connecting to Our Past, Challenging Our Present, Transforming Our Future: Building a Student-Centered Ethnic Studies Program at Santa Ana USD
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: Cultural Arts Program: Opening Doors to Cultural Experiences for Our Students
• All Means All: Equity Strategies for Success in Urban Schools
  • Portland Public Schools: Scheduling for Success: How Portland Public Schools Prioritized Equity During the Pandemic
  • Chicago Public Schools: Cultivating Student Connectedness and Engagement through Out-of-School Time (OST)
  • Dallas Independent School District: Integration Enrollment Strategies to Ensure Equity and Academic Success
• Washington Update
  • Council of the Great City Schools: Who wants to be the Speaker of the House?
• Know the Ropes: How Great City Schools are Charting a Course for Governance Effectiveness
  • Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools: Rules of Engagement: Why Your Board Needs an Operating Procedures Manual
  • Tulsa Public Schools: Limiting the Whirlwind - How the Student Outcomes Focused Governance Model Can Help Reduce Dysfunction and Distraction in a World Filled with Both
  • San Francisco Unified School District: Self-Evaluation
• Highly Ranked: Using AP Coursework to improve Urban School instruction
  • Clark County School District: AP Seminar Courses as a Lever for Equity Across All Students
  • Baltimore City Public Schools: Leveraging AP Seminar to Expand and Diversify Access to AP Opportunities
• A New Chapter: Innovative Strategies to Improve Literacy in Urban Schools
  • Jefferson County Public Schools: The Whole Package: Using the Adolescent Literacy Model (ALM) to Build Content Knowledge, Critical Thinking and Community for ALL Students
  • Columbus City Schools Out of the Silo - Bridging the Literacy Gap for Our Most At-Risk Students
• Virtual Reality: Using Advanced Technology to Strengthen Virtual and Blended Learning
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: Leveraging Synchronous Time to Increase Student Success in Independent Study
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: Blended Learning Design Strategy
• Meeting the Need of our EL and Refugee Students
  • Austin Independent School District: No More Silos: Developing Systemwide Support for Multilingual Education
  • Newark Public Schools: Newark's Bilingual Education Improvement In Light Of -- But Not Because Of -- USDOJ Enforcement
  • St. Paul Public Schools: Operation De-Silofication: Partnership Between Office of Multilingual Learning & Community Service Providers
• So You're the One? Retaining and Recruiting the Best of the Best for our Urban Schools
  • School District of Philadelphia: Paraprofessional Pipeline: How the School District of Philadelphia Partnered with Local Universities and the Teachers Union to Expand Opportunities for Paraprofessional Employees and SDP Students
  • Arlington Independent School District: Exploring the Impact of Evidence-Based Coaching on Teacher Retention
  • Jackson Public School District: The Power of Support: How Jackson Public School District Recruits and Retains Top Talent
• About Face: Addressing Student Behavioral Challenges in our Great City Schools
  • Clark County School District: Prevention Before Apprehension; Embedding Social Workers in Clark County School District Police Department, a Holistic Approach to Student Mental Health and Academic Achievement
  • St. Paul Public Schools: Safety is not the Absence of Fear: Safety is the Presence of Connection
  • School District of Palm Beach County: Innovative Case Management Practices for Behaviorally Complex Youth
• Family Friendly: How Great City Schools are Engaging Families and Communities to Strengthen Outcomes
  • Columbus City Schools: A Multi-Tiered Approach to Family Engagement
  • East Baton Rouge Parish School System: The Best of Us: How EBR Schools Aligned Existing Systems to Grow Positive Parent Relationships and Close the Opportunity Gap
  • Portland Public Schools: Learning Acceleration Strategies to Support Unfinished Learning
• Stemming the Tide: Leveraging STEM Curriculum to Enhance Urban Achievement
  • Guilford County Schools: Creating Sustainable and Responsive Implementation Plans for Middle School Math High-Quality Instructional Materials
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Engaging Creativity Through Problem Solving in STEM Education
  • New York City Department of Education, Chicago Public Schools, The School District of Philadelphia, Los Angeles Unified School District, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Mars Shot: Launching the National Math Improvement Project
• Dollars and Cents: Reviewing the Ongoing Budget Process in Urban Public Schools
  • Hillsborough County Public Schools: Hillsborough County Public Schools Budget Management Fiscal Recovery Plan
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: Aspirational Budgeting Process
  • Indianapolis Public Schools Foundation, Austin Ed Fund, Denver Public Schools Foundation, DC Public Education Fund: Philanthropic Partnerships to Support District Priorities: How Ed Funds Can be Your Most Valuable Partner
• Basic Training: Developing Innovative Professional Development Opportunities to Boost Urban Students Outcomes
  • Chicago Public Schools: Leveraging Professional Learning and Assessment Systems to Drive Inquiry in Social Science
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: Empowering Educators: Cultivating Learner Agency and Collaborative Learning
  • Portland Public Schools: Systems of Professional Learning for High Quality Curriculum and Instruction
• Good to Go: Preparing Urban Student's Post-Secondary Success
  • Chicago Public Schools: Roadmap for Success: Chicago’s K-12 and Community College Systems Partner to Accelerate Postsecondary Readiness & Access
  • Orange County Public Schools: OCPS Deliberate Approach to Student Achievement through Career Dual Enrollment
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Expanding Dual Enrollment to Underrepresented Students
• Joining Forces: How Great City Schools are Uniting with Local and UniversityPartners to Improve Urban Schools
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: 4 Ways to Build a Research-Practice Partnership That Puts Kids First
  • San Diego Unified School District: Level Up SD: Leveraging ELOP to Achieve a Vision for District-wide Summer Learning
  • Oakland Unified School District: Community Organizing to Keep Young People Connected to College, Career and Purpose
• Foundational Literacy Skill Instruction for English Learners: Instructional Practice and Materials
  • Council of the Great City Schools: Foundational Literacy Skills Instruction for English Learners: Instructional Practice and Materials
• Talk to me Goose: Communications is Key for Urban Schools Success
  • Baltimore City Public Schools: Casting a Wider Net: Using Research and Lessons Learned to Evolve your Communications
  • Wichita Public Schools: Ready, Set, Go...Build Trust and Confidence in Your System So You're Prepared When Crisis Occurs
• Staying on Course: Strategies to Keep Urban Students on Track for Graduation
  • Jefferson County Public Schools: Forecasting Cohort Graduation Rate
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: We’re All In It Together: How LAUSD Secondary School Teams Utilize Multi-Tiered Systems of Support to Increase On-Time High School Graduation
  • Washoe County School District: From Compliance to Focused Action: Guided School Performance Planning Approaches That Work
• Rise to the Top: How Principal Supervisors are Elevating Urban School Performance
  • Columbus City Schools: Build the Plane Before You Fly It: Creating a Year-Long Work map for Systems Leadership
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: Leading Leaders - Playbooks for Powerful Leadership
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Coaching Tools for the Secondary Principal
• Strengthening Curriculum and Instruction for High-Impact Learning in our Great City Schools
  • Kansas City Public Schools: Unlocking Potential: How Synchronous Teaching Can Propel Your Students to Success
  • Portland Public Schools: Deeply Supporting the Adolescent Learner
  • Hawai'i Public Schools & DonorsChoose: Resourcing the Front Lines: Increasing Student Achievement and Teacher Retention by Empowering Teachers with Personalized Classroom Resources
• Get in the Game: Establishing Principal Coaching Models in Urban Districts
  • Toledo Public Schools: Coaching & Mentoring Principals Matters
  • Albuquerque Public Schools: Differentiated Professional Development for Principals
• Mission Critical: How the Harvard Accelerating Board Capacity Summer Institute is Strengthing Urban School Board Members
  • PELP (Public Education Leadership Project) Harvard Business School: Accelerating Board Capacity (“ABC”) Summer Institute at Harvard Business School
• Choosing the Ship's Captain: how Three Urban Districts Sailed Through the Superintendent Search Process
  • Boston Public Schools, School District of the City of Philadelphia, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, The Council of the Great City Schools: Superintendent Searches - Recommendations Learned through Experience
• Community Center: Making Family and Community Engagement a Priority in our Great City Schools
  • Buffalo City School District: Buffalo Public Schools Community Schools: Saturday Academies
  • Orange County Public Schools: Parent Academies in the Post-Pandemic Age
  • Denver Public Schools: Cultivating Community Engagement through Community Hubs, a Collaborative Practice for Supporting Students, Families, and Communities
• Marching Orders: Using Strategic Planning to Advance Urban District Outcomes
  • Denver Public Schools: Cultivating Community Engagement through Community Hubs, a Collaborative Practice for Supporting Students, Families, and Communities
  • Denver Public Schools: Developing a Community-Centered Strategic Plan
• Successful Budgeting and Spending Practices in Urban Public Schools
  • Anchorage School District: Cutting Administration is Not Enough: An Urban District’s Journey to Address a $68M Deficit
  • Indianapolis Public Schools: Sustaining Impactful Programs After ESSER
  • Dallas Independent School District: Fake News, Real Results, and How We’re Finally Getting it Right: Teacher Evaluation and Compensation in Dallas
• Calculating: Shaping the Minds of our Youth Through STEM
  • Newark Public Schools: Designing Enrichment Opportunities to Engage Students
• Top Brass: How Three School Superintendents are Standing Up For Urban Public Schools
  • Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Metro Nashville Public Schools, Tulsa Public Schools, East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools: Reclaiming the Narrative: Protecting Good Teaching, Important Content, and Students' Sense of Belonging
• Clear Communications: How Urban District Leaders are providing Strong and Steady Leadership
  • Albuquerque Public Schools: How One District Partnered with Community Leaders to Address Weapons on Campus and Deal with the Public's Demand for Information in a Crisis
  • St. Louis Public Schools: The Role of School Boards During a Crisis
• Taking Care of Business: Ensuring Excellence in Urban School District Operations  
  • Aurora Public Schools: A Community Driven Approach to Addressing Enrollment Changes
  • Columbus City Schools: Maintenance Inventory and Truck Stock Program
• Top Gun: Securing the Best Professionals to Work in Urban School Districts
  • Wichita Public Schools: Applying Restorative Practices into Operations
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: Level Up Your Teaching Game with Industry Certifications
  • Hillsborough County Public Schools: Accelerate Hillsborough Educators
• Out Loud: Raising the Profile of Student Voices inUrban Schools
  • San Diego Unified School District: Raising the Student Voice: How Tomorrow’s Leaders Are Leading Today
  • Pinellas County Schools: Generation Lead: Leveraging Student Voice to Listen, Learn and Lead Across the District
  • Washoe County School District: Connect, Create, Change: Inspiring Educators to Leverage Student Voice in School Improvement Using Stanford Design Thinking
• Madres and Padres: Using Multiple Languages to Engage Urban Families and Communities
  • Austin Independent School District: Effective Engagement of EL and Immigrant Families
  • Denver Public Schools: Multilingual Family Engagement - Denver Public Schools
  • Guilford County Schools: Multilayered Supports for English Learners
• Gwynn It to Win It: High Dosage and High Impact Tutoring in Urban School Districts
  • Duval County Public Schools: Outcomes-Based Contracting for High Impact Tutoring
  • Cleveland Metropolitan School District: Reimagining Tutoring as We Endeavor to Create Schools Without Walls
  • The New Teacher Project (TNTP): Designed for Scale: NYC’s Citywide High-Impact Tutoring Initiative
• Navigating Financial Tides: Governing and Budgeting in Urban School Districts
  • Cincinnati Public Schools: Financial Town Halls
  • Des Moines Public Schools: Put Your Money Where Your Priorities Are: Strategic Budgeting for Results
  • Student Outcomes Focused Governance Cohort - Atlanta: Budgeting by Amendment. How Boards Kill Elephants
• Where are We?: Using Evaluation Tools to Improve Urban School and District Outcomes
  • Fort Worth Independent School District: Restructuring to Improve Alignment and Accountability
  • Hillsborough County Public Schools: Feedback Both Ways:  Increase Teacher Skill & Investment Through Reciprocal Feedback
  • Jefferson County Public Schools: Logic Models as Tools Assisting Improvement Efforts of District Initiatives
• Tell Me Something Good: Using Data to Analyze Urban School District Performance
  • Birmingham City Schools: Data Dives and Data Stretches: Go Beyond the Accepted Narrative, Uncover the Silences and Impact Student Achievement
  • Sacramento City Unified School District: When Integrated Data Talks, Students Learn
• Open Book: Successful Early Literacy Strategies in Urban School Districts
  • Columbus City Schools: A System’s Approach to Leading Literacy
  • Little Rock School District: Bridging the Implementation Gap: Fulfilling the Science of Reading Promise
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: MNPS Literacy Reimagined:  Transforming Teaching & Learning Through High-Quality Instructional Materials, Vertical Coherence, and Systems of Continuous Improvement
• Plan of Action: Mental Health Responses from our Great City Schools
  • Hillsborough County Public Schools: Averting Crisis; Effective Mental health Interventions & Promoting Safe Schools
  • Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools: Beyond Intervention: Scalable Solutions for Addressing the Growing Student Mental Health Crisis
  • Baltimore City Public Schools: Student Wellness Support Teams- A District Wide Initiative to Address Post-Pandemic Student Mental Health Needs
• Anchoring for Success: Creating Alignment from Helm to Deck in Urban School Districts
  • San Diego Unified School District: UTK: From Advocacy to Implementation and Efforts Towards its Long-Term Success at San Diego Unified
  • Columbus City Schools: Aligning District Leadership & Central Office to Prioritize Student Outcomes Focused Governance
  • Clark County School District: A Strategic Plan is not Enough: Ensuring Impact through a District Organizational Improvement Plan
• Ready for Action: Developing Career Pathways and CTE Programming in Urban Schools
  • Chicago Public Schools: Career Development through Intentional Work-based Learning
  • Columbus City Schools: Under Construction: Building Dynamic Partnerships that Impact Student Achievement and Workforce Development
  • Toledo Public Schools: Career Technology - Bringing Education to Industry
• Get your House in Order: Implementing Financial Controls to Improve Urban District Schools
  • Oklahoma City Public Schools: Closing the Barn Doors: Updating Digital Content Procurement Processes
  • Newark Public Schools: NBOEWell
• On Target: Aligning Urban School Instruction with the Needs of our Students
  • Portland Public Schools: Transformational Leadership: Harnessing Grade Level and Standards Aligned Instruction to Reduce Educational Inequities
  • Orange County Public Schools: Centralized Curriculum Supports for Secondary Content Areas
  • Guilford County Schools: Extended Learning Opportunities to Address Post Pandemic Learning Loss
• New Recruits: Building a Strong and Diverse Urban School Workforce
  • Jefferson County Public Schools: Increasing Leader Capacity for Diverse Hiring in an Urban School District
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Successful Recruitment & Retention Efforts leading to success of International Educators
  • Indianapolis Public Schools: Centering School Staff Retention to Successfully Traverse District Restructuring
• Even-Keel: Ensuring Urban Districts Engage and Support Students and Their Well-Being
  • Fayette County Public Schools: Mental Health and Social Emotional Learning- How do we use what we have to get what students need?
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Using DESSA to Drive SEL Intervention
• Sunny Days Ahead: Preparing our Great City Schools for the Climate Crisis
  • Los Angeles Unified School District, Denver Public Schools, Portland Public School: Urban School Districts Responding to the Climate Crisis
• Supporting Multi-Language Excellence in Urban Schools
  • Columbus City Schools: Seal of Biliteracy
  • Memphis-Shelby County Schools: Exploring a Multifaceted Approach to Bilingual Communications to Expand Your Reach
  • Los Angeles Unified School District: We are Seeds and Roots: Cultivating Spanish Language Development
• Artificial Intelligence: How Urban Schools can Navigate the Waters of Urban Education
  • Albuquerque Public Schools: K-12 Gen AI Readiness: A Guide for District Leadership
• Test to Stay on Top: Effective Assessment Tool to Boost Urban School Achievement
  • Chicago Public Schools: Implementing Balanced Systems of Assessment to Accelerate Student Learning
  • Orange County Public Schools: Building a Concrete Math Foundation
• Spotlight: Identifying Future School Leaders in our Great City Schools
  • Arlington Independent School District: Turning Teachers into Leaders in the Arlington ISD
  • Broward County Public Schools: POWER UP: Building and EMPOWERING an Impactful Instructional Teacher Program
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: Frameworks for Success: Defining Leadership Success from Teachers to the Central Office
• Turning the Page: Integrating Literacy Skills Into Diverse Urban School Curriculum
  • East Baton Rouge Parish School System: Access Granted:  Literacy Coaching Success from Cradle to Career
  • Newark Public Schools: Building Academic Success in K-3: Developing Foundational and Knowledge Building Curriculum Aligned to Standards and the Amistad Act
  • Student Achievement Partners (SAP): Observing Instruction with a Commitment to Equity
• Student-Centered: The Significant Strides that urban Schools are Making to Reset Restorative Practices
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Elevating Student Voice: Restorative Practices (RP) Course Creation w/Students as Co-Creators & Content Reviewers
  • St. Paul Public Schools: How Are the Children?: Learning About School From Students
  • Boston Public Schools: Succeed Boston: Growth, Connection and Engagement through Tiered Interventions and SEL
• Next Steps: Supporting College and Career Development for All Urban Students in our Great City Schools
  • Portland Public Schools: Scaling College & Career Advising Through Digital Compliments to In-person Supports
  • Charleston County School District: Bridging the Gap: How A New Approach to College Partnership is Transforming College Readiness in Title I High Schools
  • Chicago Public Schools: Empower Ed Pathways: Unlocking Dual Credit Success
• Driven to Tiers: How Great City Schools are Addressing the Needs of All Students with Effective MTSS
  • Clark County School District: FOCUS on Tier I Instruction to Drive Student Outcomes
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: Amplifying Multi-Tier Systems of Support for a District-wide Approach to Academic and SEL Integration for Student Success
  • Chicago Public Schools: Leveraging Behavioral Health Teams as part of a Healing-Centered Approach
• Databank: How Great City Schools are Using Data to Increase Student Achievement
  • Cleveland Metropolitan School District: Monitoring Matters: Leveraging Observations to Improve Instructional Equity
  • Orange County Public Schools: Harnessing Data to Improve Communication and Monitoring in Professional Learning
  • School District of Philadelphia: The Student Well Being Survey and Monthly Data Snapshots: Two Tools Used in SDP to Support Data-Informed Decision Making
• On the Job Training: Professional Development Practices to Equip Urban School Educators
  • Newark Public Schools: Leveraging Better Teaching through Teacher Residencies in ELA and Mathematics
  • Santa Ana Unified School District: Finding True North: One Large Urban School Districts Journey to Develop Quality Special Education Professional Development that Aligns with Best Practices and Responds to Community Needs
• Command Center: Protecting Urban District Networks and from Cyber Attacks
  • Albuquerque Public Schools: Securing the Digital Renaissance: Navigating Cyber Threats in Evolving Districts
• Jetting Ahead: How College and Career Academies are Launching Urban Students Higher
  • Omaha Public Schools: From Turbulence to Tranquility: A Successful Implementation of Wall-to-Wall College and Career Academies and Pathways
  • Anchorage School District: CCL: Next Generation Project
  • San Diego Unified School District: Teach/Lead High School Institute
• Clearing the Deck for Focus: a Mini-Workshop to Make Meetings Matter in our Great City School Districts
  • Des Moines Public Schools: The Big Picture - Board-Authorized Public Meetings - How Every Minute Counts
  • Seattle Public Schools: Using Board Meeting Time for High Impact
  • Anchorage School District: Creating a Streamlined Agenda for Meeting Effectiveness
• Twice as Nice: Dual Language Programs in our Urban Public Schools
  • San Diego Unified School District: Strategic Dual Language Program Design
  • School District of Palm Beach County: Accelerating Student Achievement through the implementation of Dual Language Programs. Aligning Your Vision of Educating All Students Through an Additive Language Model
• Manifest Destiny: Infusing Equity and Inclusion into Urban School Culture  
  • Denver Public Schools: Shut Up and Listen!: Responding to Student Voice in Pursuit of Equitable Education
  • Milwaukee Public Schools: Creating, Maintaining, and Sustaining Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Supports in K-12 Schools
• Climbing the Ranks: Developing the Next Squad of Urban School Leaders
  • Columbus City Schools: Reimagining the School Leadership Pipeline
  • Wichita Public Schools: Creating Sustainable Leadership Pipelines for Student Success
  • Portland Public Schools: Sustaining Equity Centered Leadership Pipelines
• Stay Classy: Boosting Leadership Development in the Great City Schools
  • Columbus City Schools: Challenging Siloed Leadership in Central Office: How Collaborative Experiences Are Breaking Down Barriers to Central Office Efficiency and Effectiveness
  • Indianapolis Public Schools: Support & Accountability: The Best of Both Worlds
  • Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: District-Wide Systems for Empowered Professional Development
• Kind of a Big Deal: The Importance of Early Literacy Instruction in our Great City Schools
  • East Baton Rouge Parish School System: Accelerating Third-Grade Literacy and Closing the Achievement Gap in East Baton Rouge School System
  • Albuquerque Public Schools: Shifting Practices: Supporting Foundational Reading Skills in 4th & 5th Grade
  • Orange County Public Schools: "Sense"- sational Reading

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Task Force Meeting on Black and Latina Young Women and Girls

• Empowering Black Girls Through Dismantling Historical Inequities in Schools- Columbus City Schools

Below are the presentations from the Conference Sessions (All Presentations will not be available)

You've Got a Friend in Me: Welcoming and Supporting Newcomer Students to Urban Schools

• Welcoming Newcomer Refugee Students in Metro Nashville Public Schools
• Rethinking Service to Newcomer Population in Fresno Unified School District

A Friend Like Me: Addressing Achievement Gaps with Effective Tutoring Practices

• Teens as Tutors- Duval County Public Schools
• High Dosage Tutoring and University Partnerships- Guilford County Schools

A New Hope: Mental Health and Trauma Care Responses From Our Great City Schools

• Managing the Message: Strategies to Destigmatize Mental Health Servies- School District of Palm Beach County

A Spoonful of Sugar: Sweetening The School Offerings For Urban Students

• Extended Learning Time and Academic Recovery - Guilford County

A World of Laughter, A World of Tiers: Grounding Urban School Instruction Within an MTSS Framework

• Don’t Remediate, Accelerate: Using Frontloading Strategies to Reduce Achievement Gaps for Underrepresented Students - Orange County
• Accelerating into the Future - Leveraging ESSER Funding for Student Success - Palm Beach

Big Hero: Developing Innovative Professional Development Opportunities to Turnaround Urban Student Performance

• Portland Public School’s Equity-Driven Shifts in Teacher Professional Learning - Portland

Brave: Creating Safe and Supportive Learning and Work Environments in Our Great City Schools

• Social Emotional Learning in EBRPSS - East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools
• ReTHINK - Memphis - Shelby County

Circle of Life: Navigating the Ongoing Budget and Procurement Process in Urban Public Schools

• Best Practices in Procurement - Orange County Public Schools

Communities Assemble: Creating Stronger Communications With Urban School Stakeholders

• Reframing the Dialogue: Navigating Crises, Rebuilding Trust, and Improving Stakeholder Perception - Houston Independent School District

Do You Want to Build a Snowman: Boosting Urban Student Performance Through Outdoor Learning

• Outdoor Learning and its Impact on Student Achievement in an Urban School District - Albuquerque Public Schools

Heigh-Ho, Its Off to Work We Go: Improving Urban School Facilities and Operations

• Envision SPPS: A Well-rounded Education for All Students - Saint Paul Public Schools

Hocus Pocus: Using Data to Enhance Urban School Instruction 

• Data Sharing Throughout the County - Milwaukee Public Schools

Honor Us All: Increasing Civic Engagement Among Urban Students

• Closing the (Voting) Gap: One District's Approach to Fostering Civic Engagement - Guilford County Schools

I Just Can't Wait to Be King: Identifying Future School Leaders in Our Great City Schools

• Keeping Time: Supporting Instructional Excellence - New Leaders

Its a Small World After All: Promoting Dual Language Programs in Urban Schools

• Dual Language Immersion Program Expansion in Fresno Unified School District - Fresno Unified School District

Jedi Training: Intention and Equitable Practices That Support Exceptional Urban Students

• Ensuring Equitable Services for Dually Certified English Learners - Metro Nashville Public Schools

Jumping into Hyperspace: Developing Interoperability Practices in the Great City Schools

• Improving cross-functional decision-making and successfully implementing technology-related initiatives - Council of the Great City Schools

Just Keep Swimming: Wraparound and Student Support Systems to Aid and improve Student Success

• Supporting School Age Parents through equitable practices - Milwaukee Public Schools

Let it Go: Replacing Outdated Models With Equity Focused Leadership Strategies in our Great City Schools

• From Learners to Leaders: Cultivating Leadership in Others - Orange County Public Schools

Lightyear: Ensuring Stem Opportunities for All Urban Students 

• Scaling STEM Education as a part of a PK-20 College and Career Readiness Continuum - Fort Worth Independent School District

Love and Thunder: Using Diversity and Partnership to Advance Urban Learning

• It's a Marathon - Not a Sprint - How we Improved Teacher Staffing to 99% in 2022 - Cleveland Metropolitan School District
• Diversifying the Teaching Profession Through AmeriCorps Service: City Year’s Teacher Pathway Initiative - City Year

One Jump Ahead: Infusing Equity and Conclusion into Urban school Culture

• Transforming Ways in Which We Operate: Systemic Equity - Saint Paul Public Schools

One Little Spark: Effective Literacy Strategies for Young Readers in Urban Schools

• Building Data Visualizations in support of Early Literacy Gaps - Baltimore City Public Schools
• WINN-What I Need Now: A Saint Paul Public Schools Initiative to Improve Literacy Achievement - Saint Paul Public Schools

Onward and Upward: Impacting Urban Performance Through Enhanced Professional Development

• Combating the Opportunity Myth: Equipping All Teachers to Deliver Standards-Aligned, Grade-Level Instruction - Duval County Public Schools
• MTSS PD/PL (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Professional Development/Professional Learning) - Saint Louis Public Schools

Part of Your World Recruiting and Retaining Urban School Teachers 

• Proven Strategies for Increasing Teacher Retention - Arlington Independent School District
• Finding, Attracting and Keeping Foreign Language Teachers - Dallas Independent School District

Remember the Titans: Using Coaching Models to Drive Success

• Developing and Implementing School-wide Instructional Coaching Systems - Orange County Public Schools
• Student Success Coaches: Building Partnerships that Accelerate Achievement - City Year

Spirit : Urban District Approaches to Multilingual Learning

• TK-12 STARSS (support tutoring, acceleration and reclassification for student success) L.A. Unified Leadership Cadre - Los Angeles Unified School District

Submarine Voyage: A Deep Dive into Strategic Planning in Urban Schools

• Powered by Possibilities in the Arlington ISD - Arlington Independent School District

The Force Awakens: How Urban School Districts are Addressing Educator Shortages

• Using Higher Education Partnerships to Build Teacher Pipelines: Lessons from Ft. Worth ISD - Fort Worth Independent School District

The Incredibles: Creating Access to Advanced Coursework for All Urban Students

• Bilingual Education Programs are the Conduits of Increasing Student Access to Advanced Coursework and Closing the Achievement Gaps - School District of Palm Beach 

The Rescuers: Best Practices in Research to Deliver Results in Urban Schools

• Integrating District Systems to Make All Those Partner/Vendor/Research Requests Work for You - Jefferson County Public Schools

To Infinity and Beyond: Strategic Planning and Decision-Making Processes Moving Urban education into the Future. 

• Leveraging the Strategic Direction through American Rescue Plan Resources - Saint Paul Public Schools

Up: The Significant Strides that urban Schools are Making to Reset Discipline and Restorative Practices

• ReSET - Memphis - Shelby County Schools

We're All in This Together: Building Inclusive and Supporting Programs for Urban Students with Disabilities

• Examining Staff Role in the Disproportionate Identification of Children of Color in Special Education - Milwaukee Public Schools

View the conference sessions. 

View the videos from the 63rd Annual Fall Conference in Louisville, October 23-27, 2019  

1. National Town Hall Meeting on the 2020 Census
2. Rodney Robinson, 2019 National Teacher of the Year
3. Valerie Jarrett, Former Presidential Adviser
4. Jon Meacham, Presidential Historian and Author
   
   
   

All of the breakout sessions and materials can be viewed on the Fall Conference Mobile app at: https://crowd.cc/s/3d7gE

Council Chair Eric Gordon welcomed conferees to the Fall Conference. Read his remarks.

Click here to view videos from the 2018 Fall Conference in Baltimore, October 24-28, 2018  

1. National Town Hall Meeting on Students Speak Out Ahead of Elections
2. JIll Biden, Professor and Former Second Lady
3. Michelle Alexander, Civil Rights Advocate and Author of The New Jim Crow
4. Khizr Khan, Constitutional Advocate
5. Larry Feldman, Chair of the Council
6. Queen Smith Award Recipient

All of the breakout sessions and materials can be viewed on the Fall Conference Mobile app at: https://crowd.cc/s/233c0

• Bill Gates, philanthropist
• Van Jones, political commentator
• Darienne Driver, Council chair and Milwaukee superintendent
• National Town Hall Meeting on the Urban Education and the Presidential Campaign moderated by Van Jones

All of the breakout sessions and materials can be viewed on the Fall Conference Mobile app at: https://crowd.cc/s/10iZK

 View videos from the 2016 Fall Conference in Miami, October 19-23, 2016  

1. Dan Rather, Broadcast Journalist
2. Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of the Khan Academy
3. 27th Annual Green-Garner Award Banquet
   
   

All of the breakout sessions and materials can be viewed on the Fall Conference Mobile app at:https://event.crowdcompass.com/cgcs2016

 View videos from the 60th Annual Fall Conference in Long Beach, Calif. October 7-11, 2015  

1. National Town Hall Meeting on Urban Students Speak Out at Town Hall on Education, Race and Their Futures
2. Fareed Zakaria, CNN Host
3. Jose Fernandez, Former Astronaut
4. George McKenna, Educator
5. Khizr Khan, Constitutional Advocate
6. Richard Carranza, Chair of the Council
7. Green-Garner Award Ceremony
8. Queen Smith Award Recipient
   
   

All of the breakout sessions and materials can be viewed on the Fall Conference Mobile app at: https://event.crowdcompass.com/cgcs2015

• Download the 11-page agenda-at-a-glance conference program for the Fall Conference in Long Beach.
  
• Download the 45-page conference program for the Fall Conference in Long Beach.

View videos from the 57th Annual Fall Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico October 30-November 3, 2013  

1. Tony Dungy, Author and Football Coach
2. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, Leadership Expert 
3. David Gergen, Political Analyst
4. Valeria Silva, Council Chair Address
   
   

Town Hall Meeting Video on Race, Language and Culture, hosted by Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree

2013 CGCS Conference Mobile App

 Fall Conference Program

   

Click here to download the 12-page Agenda-at-a-glance from the Fall Conference program.	Click here to download the 48-    page Fall Conference program,   including information on all of   the sessions.