Type Of Content: Podcast

In ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times, Karin Chenoweth interviews expert educators about the problems they face, the solutions they fashion, and what they hope will come out of this time.

In ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times, Karin Chenoweth interviews expert educators about the problems they face, the solutions they fashion, and what they hope will come out of this time.

To talk about the progress Seaford has made in the last few years Ed Trust brought together Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, author Richard Kahlenberg, and Sharon Brittingham, a Seaford native who is a former principal and today coaches principals throughout Delaware.

Seaford, Delaware, was the “Nylon Capital of the World” until DuPont closed its plant. Today it has twice the rate of poverty as the rest of the state.

A small, kindergarten-through-8th-grade district in rural Oklahoma, Lane was identified by Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University, as one of the few districts in the country that “grow” its students almost six academic years in five calendar years.

To kick off Season 2 of ExtraOrdinary Districts, we brought together an all-star panel to discuss school district improvement. Janice Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Harvard University’s Ronald F. Ferguson, and University of Michigan’s Nell Duke.

In season two we travel to two rural districts and one suburban district to talk with thoughtful educators about the hard work they have put in to develop systems and ways of operating to continuously improve the learning of students.