Year: 2010

Brockton High School is a comprehensive grades 9–12 school located in an urban center 30 miles south of Boston. The school’s approximately 4,350 students represent a range in diversity and socioeconomic levels. The education program follows a six-day block schedule that offers core and elective courses in academic, vocational, fine arts, and performing arts programs. High expectations and high standards help motivate students enrolled in each of the academic programs and levels: Internati...Read more

Earning the designation of "Model School" is an achievement to be proud of. Each school travels on their own path to applying and presenting at the Model Schools Conference but there are some common characteristics and achievements of schools selected. Dr. Linda Lucey, Executive Director of Program Design at the International Center for Leadership in Education and the Program Chair of the Model Schools Conference will share with SPN members what steps they should take on their journey to beco...Read more

Susie Peterson, Principal
Tina Wahlert, School Improvement Consultant, Green Hills AEA, Avoca, IA

January 2011

Duration: 12:42

Folder: Leadership

A Research Partnership of the Successful Practices Network, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the International Center for Leadership in Education, and the Quaglia Institute. Funded by the generous support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This report describes the results of five years of research SPN led in 75 schools in 10 states. The factors that emerged from this research has contributed to a national understanding of what distinguishes model schools. This report feat...Read more

Year: 2009

The A. B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School (Combs) program is grounded in the belief that building cooperative relationships and nurturing responsibility, kindness, and good judgment are the basis for creating a successful community of learners. By developing the whole child—socially, emotionally, academically, and ethically—the program fosters a climate of principle-centered personal leadership.

It is Combs’ culture of continuous improvement and performance excellence, dif...Read more

Grange Hall Elementary School
Moseley, VA

February 2011

Duration: 13:34

Year: 2011

DeKalb Early College Academy, also known as DECA, is an early college high school located in historic Stone Mountain, Georgia, about 15 miles from Atlanta. The school is an alternative to large, comprehensive high schools in the DeKalb County School System and is a school of choice for parents who may not want their child to attend the traditional community high school. Students must apply and be accepted into the program as they would a college. The school accepts students from both public a...Read more

Kelly Kirkpatrick - Assistant Principal
Clark Wilhelm - Counselor
Rocky Heights Middle School

Model Schools Conference 2011

Duration: 11:27 Minutes

Bowie Elementary School
Corsicana, TX

Duration: 17:04

Aaron Hansen, Principal
White Pine Middle School
Ely, Nevada

September 2009

Duration 10:49