“It Could Get Ugly . . . ”
Richard Fossey, Donald R. McAdams, and Dan Katzir
“‘It Could Get Ugly . . . ’ Oakland’s School Board Fights to Maintain Reform Momentum While Faced with a Massive Fiscal Crisis” portrays a district that has been in financial and academic disarray for more than a decade, so much so that bruising audits, state overseers, and near-loss of local governing authority seem de rigueur.
Access or Quality?
Michelle Bellino, Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Set in a refugee camp in Kenya, this case’s protagonist is an education officer struggling to promote educational access and quality for refugee children in an ever-changing organizational setting.
Challenges to Implementing Innovation and Accountability in Denver
Elizabeth Micci and Katherine Merseth
Challenges to Implementing Innovation and Accountability in Denver describes the context of the Denver Public Schools from 2010 to 2018 and the efforts of school leaders to implement a management strategy that would provide all students in this diverse district access to an excellent education.
Citizen Schools
Monica C. Higgins, Allen S. Grossman, Paola Peacock Friedrich
Citizen Schools is an education non-profit committed to designing, implementing, and scaling solutions to close achievement gaps with urban school districts.
Creating Global Citizens in the City of Brotherly Love
E. B. O’Donnell
The purpose of this case is to show that global studies can enhance the overall academic experience for students, and it does not have to take away from the rigor or comprehensiveness of a standard curriculum.
Data Wise at Poe Middle School in San Antonio, Texas
Kathryn Parker Boudett
The case focuses on how a team of educators from Edgar Alan Poe Middle School in the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) began integrating the Data Wise Improvement Process (DWIP) into the collaborative culture at their school.
Dignitas Project (A)
Monica Higgins, Lissa V. Young, and Bristol Charrow
An educational entrepreneur lays the groundwork for creating a community-based educational organization in Kenya.
Dignitas Project (B)
Monica Higgins, Lissa V. Young, and Bristol Charrow
The founders of a community-based educational organization in Kenya prepare a participatory needs assessment.