Achieving Equity & Excellence: Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools
In this interactive keynote, Dr. Douglas Reeves makes the case that equity and excellence are inseparable. “When our critics hear the word equity, they claim it is a code for low standards. When they hear excellence, they claim it is code for exclusion. Our research shows that schools can and must have both equity and excellence.” The research in this presentation updates the original 90 90 90 studies that had a major impact on education in high-poverty schools over the last two decades. New research confirms many of the early findings, especially the power of nonfiction writing and collaborative scoring. Most importantly, the evidence confronts the persistent stereotype that demography is destiny. The damage done to student learning especially hurt high-poverty schools, and now is the time for teachers and leaders to take decisive action to reverse the effects of the pandemic on student learning and educational equity.
Fearless Schools: Building Trust and Resilience for Learning, Teaching, and Leading
Schools around the world have been devastated by trauma, stress, depression, and anxiety by students and staff members. Now is the time to support students and adults, and Fearless Schools can help. In this interactive professional learning, Dr. Reeves provides the latest and best research on fearless schools. Teachers and educational leaders cannot provide certainty in an uncertain world. But they can provide an environment that is physically and psychologically safe. The essence of fearless schools is psychological safety. In this interactive presentation, we explain how leaders and teachers build and maintain trust and psychological safety and how sometimes these ideals are inadvertently undermined. Participants will engage in rich discussion and reflection based on a large body of 21st Century evidence. Special attention is paid to resilience or bouncing back from physical, emotional, and psychological injury.