Collaboration

pds navbar  One way that DSC can extend its influence to positively affect children's education is by combining our efforts with those of other organizations¬groups with whom we share common goals and approaches, from whom we can learn, and whose efforts we can augment.

 We have established five such long-term "collaborative initiatives" with the partners listed below. Using our materials and programs, they can deepen and broaden their work. And from that work we can discover ways to improve the impact and effectiveness of what we have to offer.

  • National Association of Elementary School Principals is a professional association of 26,000 members, most of whom are elementary school principals.
  • Learning Exchange is the premier provider of professional development services to the 80-plus school districts in and around Kansas City.
  • Bay Area School Reform Collaborative is the new organization entrusted with administering $50 million donated by William Hewlett and Walter Annenberg to improve public education in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • The Coalition of Essential Schools, founded by Ted Sizer, is a national, grassroots network of over 1000 schools and twenty regional centers that are working collaboratively to enact CES’s ten principles of effective schooling.
  • The Missouri Accelerated Schools Network includes over 150 schools that the Missouri Department of Education is helping to adopt a whole-school governance approach that involves teachers, parents, and principals in choosing, implementing, and assessing their reform efforts.
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