The , a research center housed at Vanderbilt University鈥檚 , will present its first national conference on identifying practices of highly effective high schools and the process of 鈥渟caling up鈥� or transferring those methods to less effective schools in the same districts.
The conference, 鈥淎chieving Success at Scale: Research on effective high schools,鈥� will bring together empirical research on the policies, practices and processes related to positive student outcomes, including achievement, high school graduation and college access, particularly for low income, racial minority and English language learner student populations.
The event is June 10-12 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel and is open to administrators, researchers, teachers or anyone with interest in education. by June 6.
The keynote address will be given by the University of California鈥檚 Vice Provost for Education Partnerships and Professor of Education , author of .
Researchers from the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools will share insights gained from their fieldwork, with session topics on measuring high school effectiveness and high school reform models.
The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools is one of three national research centers at Peabody funded by the , a research arm of the .