Harvard University researchers describe systems at CPI’s affiliate, Community Day Charter School, 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

 

    Experience

 

Experience


Community Partners Initiative has a successful record in providing management and consulting services for:

  • Charter Schools

  • Nonprofit 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