Promising Practices Compendium
Highlighting Innovations in Charter Schools
Welcome to CEG’s Charter Schools Promising Practices Compendium.
About the Profiles in this Collection
This compendium contains profiles of promising practices about educational innovations in charter schools and about governance innovations in charter schools. The profiles were developed and compiled by the Center on Educational Governance. The profiles illustrate how charter school operators, authorizers, and state policymakers have implemented various strategies. The Promising Practice profile includes:
- Implementation details, including history and necessary resources
- Impact of the practice
- Lessons learned
- Useful resources
- Contact information
Promising Practices Profiles:
- Promising Practices in Education Programs of Charter Schools
- Alameda Community Learning Center: Parent Participatory Democracy Program
- Bay Area School of Enterprise: Enterprise Project-Based Learning
- California Academy for Liberal Studies: Action Research by Teachers
- Camino Nuevo Charter Academy: Maintenance/Heritage Bilingual Program
- Center for Advanced Research and Technology: Real-Life Application of Technology
- CHIME Charter Elementary School: Co-Teaching/Planning Model
- CHIME Charter Elementary School: Increasing Teacher Expertise
- Community Harvest Charter School: One-On-One Adult Mentoring Programs
- Coastal Academy Charter School: Using data to customize each student’s instructional program
- Creative Arts Charter School: Integration of Arts
- East Palo Alto Charter School: Teacher Evaluation
- Escondido Charter High School: One-On-One Adult Mentoring Program
- Feaster-Edison Charter School: Mentoring Program
- Gateway High School: College Counseling Program
- High Tech High Charter School: The Academic Internship
- Ivy Academia: Using Technology to Increase Parent Involvement
- Kipp Bayview Academy: Paycheck Program
- Literacy First Charter School: Using Technology To Increase Parent Involvement
- Montague Charter Academy: Creating a Parent Center
- Pacific Collegiate School: Writing Across The Curriculum
- Pacoima Elementary Charter School: Teacher Evaluation
- Ralph A. Gates Elementary School: Flexible Groupings
- Redding School of the Arts: Sound Club
- Santa Barbara Charter School: Articulated Fiber Arts Program
- Synergy Charter Academy: Using the same assessments and evaluating tools at K-5 and 6-8 campuses
- The Classical Academy: Parent Involvement Program
- The New City School: Visual and Performing Arts Festivals
- University Preparation School: Curriculum Development Service Learning
- Venture Academy: Modified Daily Attendance
- View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter High School: Argumentative Writing Across The Curriculum
- Watts Learning Center: We Love Children Program
- Yuba County Career Preparatory Charter School: The Team-Teaching Career Academy
- Promising Practices in Charter School Governance
- Authorizer-Initiated Peer Reviews to Facilitate Open Communication
- Creating Education Partnerships to Meet the Needs of Business and Their Employees
- Developing Training Programs Charter School Governing Board Members
- Empowering Teachers Through a CMO-Created Union
- Enhancing Charter Schools Through Parent Involvement
- Harnessing Resources through Mayor-Authorized Charter Schools
- Implementing an In-House Approach to Teacher Training and Professional Development
- Preparing for the Inevitable: Planning for Leadership Succession at the School, Charter Management Organization, and State Agency Levels
- Running Charter Schools Through a Teacher Professional Partnership
- Taking the Guesswork out of Vendor Selection: Minnesota’s Charter School Consultant Survey
- Using a Board Bank to Matching Board Members and Charter Schools
Promising practices were identified and selected for inclusion in this compendium based on innovativeness, evidence of positive impact, and potential for transferability or usefulness across states and schools (both charter and district-run).
The Center on Educational Center on Governance has not conducted program evaluations of the strategies profiled in this compendium and does not endorse particular policies, practices, or programs.
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