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Our mission: The mission of the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) is to transform schools to ensure that all students succeed.  We believe that schools should prepare every student to achieve academically and make a positive contribution to a democratic society. CCE partners with public schools and districts to create and sustain effective and equitable schools. (more about our mission)

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NEWS, EVENTS, and OPPORTUNITIES at CCE

• The Ninth Annual Pilot Staff Sharing Conference takes place Wednesday, October 22, from noon to 4 pm at Josiah Quincy Upper School. Please click for the Flyer with further details or the Proposal Form for potential presenters.
• African-American leaders call for more Pilots. In a Boston Globe op-ed on July 23, 2008, Boston ministerial leader Ray Hammond and community activist Horace Small argue, “Access to equal and effective education is a key civil rights struggle of the 21st century.” They see Pilot schools as the best hope for Boston minorities. They say the time for “waiting” to build more Pilot schools is past and that further stalling is a civil rights issue....(read A proven route to education)
  
• Demand for Pilot school placements far exceeds available spaces. Students who do not get their Pilot choice often leave BPS. A new 2008 CCE study of the student assignment process in Boston finds, for the current school year, 26% of Boston families requested Pilot schools as their first choice, more than double the 11% of total school enrollment that Pilots can currently seat. Close to a third of the families who were turned down in their Pilot preference chose to leave the Boston public schools....(read the full report)
• Patrick plans new kind of public school, by Tania deLuzuriaga and Matt Viser, in the Boston Globe, June 11, 2008. Governor Deval Patrick has proposed creating “readiness schools,” which in their initial details sound as though they will enjoy similar autonomies to those of Pilot schools, although there seem to be some differences in terms of the nature of the district-teacher union partnership. 
• Pilot student promotes peace, named top US teen in 2008 by Ebony ....(more)
• Co-Pilot turnaround at Boston English HS, according to a recent article in the Jamaica Plain Gazette....(more)
• Strong Results, High Demand: A Four-Year Study of Boston's Pilot High Schools, by Rosann Tung and Monique Ouimette, November 2007. Download Executive Summary (3.6 MB) or Full Report (4.3 MB). New study finds that Boston Pilot high school students outperformed their non-Pilot peers on every standard measure of engagement and performance over a four year period. The higher level of achievement held true for every racial, economic, and academic group examined.
• Press release: Boston Pilot High Schools Excel in 4-Year Study. A forum at The Boston Foundation, moderated by Paul Reville, Chair of the Board of Education, with Superintendent Carol Johnson in attendance, looked at the new CCE study of Pilot high schools....(more)
• The Essential Guide to Pilot Schools - CCE has published the first two in a series of guides to the workings of Pilot Schools..…(more)
• New, revised CCE small schools planning guide available from Corwin Press.…(more)
• News features about Pilot high school students..…(more)
• EdWeek discusses the Pilot concept as a national movement...(more)
• Boston wins the Broad Prize for having the most improved urban schools in the nation. U.S. News & World Report cites Pilots to show how it was done.…(more)
• The Los Angeles Unified School District announces the creation of the Belmont Pilot Schools Network, the first replication of the Boston Pilot Schools concept outside of Massachusetts.…(more)
• CCE Executive Director Dan French comments in Education Week on the successes and workings of Pilot Schools..…(more)

Who we are...

The Center for Collaborative Education promotes purposeful learning and small, caring communities in K-12 public schools. We provide coaching, professional development, advocacy, and research toward the development of schools that nurture every student. We are passionate about equity: schools must provide what each student needs. They must help each student to express things that matter in writing and speaking, to read challenging texts, to use mathematical concepts and grapple with complex problems, and to understand human cultures and the natural world. Since these are complex undertakings, we are aware that they require complex assessments that go beyond a single standardized test. So we help schools create tools of authentic assessment that reflect the learning goals and experiences they are committed to. And we promote smallness, so that students and teachers can know each other well - a necessity if powerful learning and assessment are to occur. Along with smaller schools and classes, we advocate for autonomy of individual schools, so teachers and administrators will be free to create the best learning environments for every student.We are comprised of a number of networks and projects, described on this web site. They all share these common ideals. Please have a look at what we do and at what we are learning. And let us know if we can help you.

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