Publications Cross-School Improvement Case Studies
As a facilitator for NYC’s Learning Partners Program, I worked with school teams as they developed, tested, and refined a change idea through cross-school visits, where partner schools exchanged feedback and iterated on one another’s work. That collaborative structure is what distinguished the model from single-school coaching. I wrote up two of those years as full case studies — New Bridges Elementary (2015–2016) and The Highbridge Green School (2016–2017) — each showing a different team’s complete cycle from a small pilot to schoolwide practice.
ProcessFacilitated the team meetings and the cross-school work itself, then compiled the data and artifacts from each school and revised through rounds of feedback from the participating principals and teachers.
A Brooklyn elementary school team piloted a 15-minute daily math routine with one grade level, then scaled it school-wide across three inquiry cycles. By March, every teacher in the building had implemented it.
A triad of schools traded feedback all year. Highbridge Green’s team tested a literacy strategy, found the data didn’t support it, and changed course twice before landing on an approach worth scaling to eighth grade.
Paired with the program video and the citywide implementation framework, the case studies make the model both understandable and reusable beyond the participating schools.