Experience
Community Partners Initiative has a successful record providing management and consulting services for:
- Charter Schools
- Non-profit Social Service Agencies
- Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
- Early Child Care Centers
- After-school Programs
Including:
- Building Excellent Schools
- Albany Community Charter Schools; Brighter Choice
- Massachusetts Charter Public School Association
- Child Care Circuit
- Community Day Care
Examples of support delivered:
- Implementing successful strategies for recruiting, supporting, and retaining outstanding teachers
- Creating systems for setting classroom goals, measuring performance, and rewarding success
- Using data as the foundation of a positive public relations program; uncovering the "hidden successes" that support your record of achievement
- Designing benchmark testing that correlates with high stakes state tests
- Developing administrative systems that free up educators to educate
Harvard University researchers described systems at CPI’s affiliate, Community Day Charter School-Prospect, in Lawrence, Massachusetts:
...works from the premise that achieving the mission requires structures that organize people and time in ways that allow teachers to focus on instruction and monitor the progress of every child.
from Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools, by Katherine K. Merseth with Kristy Cooper, John Roberts, Mara Casey Tieken, Jon Valant, and Chris Wynne