 Road to Broad
In November of 2005, the Board of Trustees set the vision for Dallas ISD to be the premier urban district by 2010. Since that time, the District has engaged in a systemic redesign of the teaching and learning systems.
Based upon the best practices of the National Center for Educational Accountability (NCEA), the district has implemented the 17 recommendations of an NCEA conducted curriculum audit. The District has also joined an urban district educational collaborative, The Institute for Learning, at the University of Pittsburgh, and is focused on implementing the research-based Principles of Learning as the district’s educational theory of action.
The Broad Prize
The Broad Prize for Urban Education is a highly coveted annual award created to honor urban school districts making the greatest overall improvement in student achievement while at the same time reducing achievement gaps across income and ethnic groups. School districts that are awarded this prize do not receive it by focusing on lots of individual programs. They achieve it by addressing systemic change that leads to total transformation.
For more information on the Broad Prize, go to http://www.broadprize.org/ |
