As education leaders strive to promote excellence for all students, they confront sharply contrasting schools of thought about the best way to close achievement gaps between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

It is not difficult to find factors outside of school that have enormous influence on student performance and education opportunity.

Learn specific strategies that are working in high poverty schools, such as consistent nonfiction writing across a variety of content, collaborative scoring and the use of authentic assessments.

Learn specific instructional strategies and terms, such as academic versus social language that support English learners from a CLS Associate and moderated by Dr. Douglas Reeves. Research is shared to support the recommendations.

Dr. Douglas Reeves shares updates on the original 90 90 90 school research. He reminds us of the initial conclusions that consisted of a laser-like focus on student achievement, the "trophy case" effect, nonfiction writing, collaborative scoring, and Power Standards. Moreover, Dr. Reeves provides more specific strategies that successful schools are implementing now, such as writing to compare and argumentative writing.

Join Dr. Kate Anderson-Foley and Dr. Douglas Reeves discuss how districts meet the needs of all students including the importance of social and emotional learning. It is not simply an add-on program.

Success in high-poverty schools.