Deep and reciprocal connections between practice and research

SERP stimulates innovation in education through sustained collaborations among distinguished researchers, educators, and designers. SERP partnerships expand the capacity for continuous improvement while remaining mindful of what teachers do, how schools operate, and how students learn.
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News and Notes

  • The SERP-San Francisco Language and Literacy Team will be presenting a workshop on their work on WordSift at the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) conference at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on March 11, 2010 from 12:45 to 2 pm.  The SERP team will give a practical demonstration of WordSift, an interactive web-based vocabulary development tool. This tool was designed by Professor Kenji Hakuta and graduate student Greg Wientjes at Stanford University in the context of the SERP science work in San Francisco Unified School District.  
  • "The development of reading skills in language minority learners, particularly during the middle school years, remains unclear despite the increasing need for educators to serve this rapidly growing population." - SERP's Boston Research Director Catherine E. Snow worked with colleagues Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, Michael J. Kieffer, Gina Biancarosa, and Joanna A. Christodoulou to prepare an article for the journal Reading and Writing investigating English reading comprehension growth in adolescent language minority learners. Click here to read the abstract and to preview the article.
  • SERP’s San Francisco Field Site Director, Phil Daro, the mathematics chair of Standards Development Group in the Common Core State Standards Initiative, was part of a team who developed and wrote the first official public draft of the college- and career-readiness standards in mathematics. This initiative is supported by The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. For a copy of the mathematics standards, the draft standards for English Language Arts, and a press release of their work, visit www.corestandards.org .

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SERP Field Sites

The SERP field sites are structured as a set of three closely connected, and partially overlapping, groups.

Tom Payzant “What’s amazing to me is that groups from around the country are holding engaging sessions in field sites. Practitioners are at the table – people from different universities, as well as teachers, coaches, and superintendents. In my 40-plus years in education, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Tom Payzant
Harvard University Lecturer, former Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary for K-12 Education
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