Since the establishment of the formal partnership 2009, the Stanford/SFUSD Partnership has been featured in a number of news articles.
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What Does it Mean for a Child to Be Kindergarten-Ready? —
What Does it Mean for a Child to Be Kindergarten-Ready?
Pamela Geisler & Meenoo Yashar, Education Week
March 30, 2017
The authors explain how they include findings from a recent study on TK Performance as one of many pieces of evidence to help the district determine what children need to be considered Kindergarten-ready.
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PRESS: Early-Education Research: Transitional-Kindergarten Evaluation in San Francisco —
Early-Education Research: Transitional-Kindergarten Evaluation in San Francisco
Christopher Doss, Education Week
March 27, 2017
The National Network of Educational Research Practice Partnerships (NNERPP) has partnered with Education Week to feature members' work in their weekly blog, "Urban Education Reform: Bridging Research and Practice". This week Stanford-SFUSD's partnership project between Christopher Doss, doctoral student, and SFUSD's Early Education department summarizes the work that analyzes the the impact of the Transitional Kindergarten program on literacy skills.
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It may be Black History Month, but SF students engage in Ethnic Studies classes year-round —
It may be Black History Month, but SF students engage in Ethnic Studies classes year-round
Myong Leigh, San Francisco Examiner
February 7, 2017
Interim Superintendent Myong Leigh explains SFUSD's approach to developing students' knowledge of diverse histories throughout the full school year. Leigh cites Stanford's study to describe the influential role Ethnic Studies has had on student outcomes.
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New research shows broad academic benefits for students taking ethnic studies classes —
New research shows broad academic benefits for students taking ethnic studies classes
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, KPCC Southern California Public Radio
January 6, 2016
Emily Penner featured in a story on the expansion of Ethnic Studies in California. Her study of San Francisco's ethnic studies program is prominently featured as a key ingredient to this expansion.
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California will soon provide ethnic studies classes for all high schoolers. Here's why. —
California will soon provide ethnic studies classes for all high schoolers. Here's why.
Grace Hwang Lynch, Los Angeles Daily News
December 07, 2016
"A study released earlier this year by Stanford University shows that ethnic studies classes have many long-term benefits for students, including fewer absences, higher grades and even better graduation rates. Those improvements were especially pronounced among boys and Hispanic students. San Francisco Unified intentionally made ethnic studies a freshman course with the aim of impacting students early, and keeping them in school."
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Going to school is optional: Schools need to engage students to increase their lifetime opportunities —
Going to school is optional: Schools need to engage students to increase their lifetime opportunities
Susanna Loeb & Jing Liu, Brookings
October 27, 2016
As part of a quantitative study, Stanford Researchers Susanna Loeb and Jing Liu use a slightly different lens to account for chronic absenteeism in secondary grades (6-12th).
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News - Kappan. A university and district partnership closes the research-to-classroom gap. —
A University and District Partnership Closes the Research-to-Classroom Gap
Laura Wentworth, Richard Carranza, & Deborah Stipek, Phi Delta Kappan
May 2016
The Stanford-SFUSD partnership looks back to the nearly decade-long relationship to inform similar initiatives connecting researchers and practitioners nation-wide.
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NEWS - How a Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who is "Smart" —
How a Strengths-Based Aproach to Math Redefijnes Who is "Smart"
Katrina Schwartz, KQED MindShift
May 23, 2016
This article showcases Complex Instruction curriculum as a means of promoting empowering learning in mathematics education. The author also interviews the San Francisco Unified Mathematics department around their choice and implementation of the curriculum.
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NEWS - A University and District Partnership Closes the Research-to-Classroom Gap —
A University and District Partnership Closes the Research-to-Classroom Gap
Stanford GSE News.
May 10, 2016
The Stanford GSE article features the Kappan magazine article by three authors: Laura Wentworth, who received her PhD from Stanford Graduate School of Education in 2010 and is now director of the Stanford University/San Francisco Unified School District Partnership; Deborah Stipek, former GSE dean and faculty director of Stanford's Haas Center for Public Service; and Richard Carranza, SFUSD superintendent.
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Stanford's Community Partnerships Awards honor four service programs —
Stanford's Community Partnerships Awards honor four service programs
Stanford University News Service.
May 18, 2016
The Stanford-SFUSD Partnership was recognized along with other community-based organizations on their strong leadership in facilitating mutually beneficial research practice partnerships.
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NEWS - Building Empathy in Adults through Student Shadow Days —
Beyond Data: Building Empathy in Adults through Student Shadow Days
Katrina Schwartz, MindShift
March 22, 2016
This feature focuses on Marthaa Torres, Principal of Thurgood Marshall High School experience shadowing one 10th grade student and the support and systems she's providing to allow her staff to shadow a student as well. The article also highlights Lena Van Haren, Prinicpal of Everett Middle School, use of shadowing throughout the school year.
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NEWS - How Ethnic Studies Programs Have a Positive Ripple Effect —
How Ethnic Studies Programs Have a Positive Ripple Effect
Emily Wilson, AlterNet
March 21, 2016
AlterNet spoke with Penner, a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Education, about San Francisco ethnic studies' influence on "at-risk" youth outcomes, particularly the ripple effect the classes appear to have on students’ overall academic performance.
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NEWS - New Research Finds Ethnic Studies Improve Overall Learning —
New Research Finds Ethnic Studies Improve Overall Learning
Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, San Jose Inside
March 3, 2016
"'I’ll confess that when we first generated these results, I was incredulous,' Dee says. 'If I was reading a study saying that taking the course increases GPA by 1.4 points, I would not believe that.'”
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NEWS - San Francisco School District Administrators to Shadow Students to Improve Learning —
San Francisco School District Administrators to Shadow Students to Improve Learning
Lyanne Melendez, ABC7 News
February 29, 2016
This news clip features Superintendent Carranza engaging in the Hasso Plattner School of Design's "Shadow a Student" Challenge. SFUSD and the Stanford d.school's k12 lab director, Susie Wise (also featured) are partnering to develop "empathy" district-wide.
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NEWS - The Case for Ethnic Studies in All Schools So Students Can Excel —
The Case for Ethnic Studies in All Schools So Students Can Excel
Kevin Boggess, Equal Voice
February 9, 2016
This article explains the movement towards the Ethnic Studies curriculum in San Francisco. The author describes the curriculum and its influence on the affective experience of youth.
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NEWS - Vision to action-Supporting the most underserved schools —
Vision to Action: Supporting the Most Underserved Schools
Laura Wentworth, Ritu Khanna & Regina Piper, Leadership. Association of California School Administrators.
January-February, p. 34
An in-depth look at the strategy around creating and supporting a focused group of schools known as the 'Superintendent's Zone'.
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NEWS - We Need to 'Revolutionize' How We Teach Math Says Stanford's Jo Boaler —
We Need to 'Revolutionize' How We Teach Math Says Stanford's Jo Boaler
Forum with Michael Krasny
January 25, 2015
In this episode of Forum, Stanford Professor Jo Boaler explains the research-based rationale for detracking and supporting the belief that anyone can learn math at high levels.
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NEWS - At-risk students improve when they take a race and ethnicity class- study —
At-risk students improve when they take a race and ethnicity class - study
Eli Rosenberg, The Guardian
January 14, 2016
Stanford researchers concluded that 'culturally relevant' teaching is an important part of the education of students who could flunk or might drop out.
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NEWS - Ethnic studies classes in S.F. surprisingly successful —
Ethnic studies classes in S.F. surprisingly successful
Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle
January 13, 2016
"Taking a ninth-grade ethnic studies course boosted the grades, attendance and course completion rates of San Francisco students who started high school with an academic record that indicated future failure, according to a newly released Stanford University study."
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NEWS - Stanford study suggests academic benefits to ethnic studies courses —
Stanford study suggests academic benefits to ethnic studies courses
Brooke Donald, Stanford Report
January 12, 2016
New research shows gains in attendance, GPA of at-risk high school students from incorporating culturally relevant pedagogy.
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NEWS: Teachers are about to get the data they need to educate your kids, experts say —
Teachers are about to get the data they need to educate your kids, experts say
Kristina Rizga, Mother Jones
December 22, 2015
An overview of the new accountability index designed and implemented through the partnership between John W. Gardner Center, CORE Districts, and other partners. The article contextualizes the new index within Every Student Succeeds Act which calls for the inclusion of non-academic indicators to measure school quality and cites the index as an exemplar.
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NEWS: How Texting Can Actually Improve Your Writing Skills —
How Texting Can Actually Improve Your Writing Skills
Susan Johnston Taylor, GOOD
December 7, 2015
The READY4K! Texting program lead by Professor Susanna Loeb and CEPA Labs Executive Director Ben York has shown to positively influence early literacy skills in SFUSD and featured among other literacy texting programs in this GOOD Magazine article.
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NEWS: How do you start, maintain, and sustain a research-practice partnership? —
How Do You Start, Maintain, and Sustain a Research-Practice Partnership?
Kristen Davidson, National Center for Research in Policy and Practice Blog
November 17, 2015
Takeaways from a conversation between Bellevue School District-University of Washington (UW), Get Real! Science program, and the Stanford-SFUSD Partnership hosted by the Research+Practice Collaboratory.
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NEWS: Improving the Opportunities and Outcomes of California's Students Learning English —
Improving the Opportunities and Outcomes of California's Students Learning English: Findings from School District-University Collaborative Partnerships
Ilana M. Umansky, Sean Reardon, Kenji Hakuta, Karen D. Thompson, Peggy Estrada, Katherine Hayes, Hilda Maldonado, Susan Tandberg, Claude Goldenberg, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
October 2015
In this policy brief Ilana Umansky and her co-authors review research findings from three university school district research partnerships and present recommendations for changes in policy and practice to expand opportunities for EL students.
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NEWS: California schools holiding back English Learners, say Stanford researchers and colleagues —
California schools holding back English Learners, say Stanford researchers and colleagues
Edmund L. Andrews, Stanford EdNews
October 20, 2015
New report by Kenji Hakuta, Ilana Umansky and others offers evidence of inequitable treatment of English Language Learners in California Schools.
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NEWS: How the CORE districts are designing new measures of school quality —
How the CORE Districts are designing new measures of school quality
Michael Hanson, EdSource
September 01, 2015
A look into how the CORE districts in partnership with the John W. Gardner Center are redesigning accountability measures.
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NEWS: Stanford teams up with San Francisco schools to prepare math teacher-leaders —
Stanford teams up with San Francisco schools to prepare math teacher-leaders
Brooke Donald, Stanford School of Education News
June 26, 2015
This article features the partnership between Hilda Borko & Janet Carlson from the Stanford Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) and the SFUSD Math team on the capacity building of math teacher leaders using the Mathematics Leadership Preparation (MLP) model and the Problem Solving Cycle (PSC) model.
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NEWS: The Power of a Good Idea: How San Francisco is Building a PreK-3rd Grade Bridge —
The Power of a Good Idea: How San Francisco is Building a PreK-3rd Grade Bridge
Laura Bornfreund, New America EdCentral
June 24,2015
EdCentral spotlights the SFUSD Prek-3rd grade bridge and features the partnership with Stanford School of Education as one of the key moves toward establishing this approach.
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NEWS: Can separate be equal? SF Chronicle —
Can separate be equal?
Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle
May 18, 2015
This article quotes Prof. Prudence Carter from a School Board meeting on a proposed student assignment resolution.To provide context to the quote, Prof. Carter is expressing the reality that racial isolation does not work for the best interests of all groups in a healthy democracy. Yet, the quote is referencing the observed differences on tests and graduation rates when comparing racially isolated schools.
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NEWS: Memorizers are the lowest achievers and other Common Core math surprises —
Memorizers are the lowest achievers and other Common Core math surprises
Jo Boaler, The Hechinger Report
May 7, 2015
This opinion piece by Stanford Professor Jo Boaler references the work SFUSD has done in relation to their math practices and policies as an exemplar of a district implementing the Common Core State Standards with fidelity, and the benefits of SFUSD's approaches to utilizing CCSS in math.
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NEWS: Math is an important part of education —
Math is an important part of education
Richard A. Carranza, The San Francisco Examiner
April 07, 2015
References Carol Dweck's research around how tracking can send a message that is detrimental to student achievement.
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NEWS: A One-Time English-Language Learner Puts Premium on Bilingual Bicultural Education —
A One-Time English-Language Learner Puts Premium on Bilingual, Bicultural Education
Madeline Will, Education Week Leaders to Learn From
February 24, 2015
Richard Carranza is spotlighted as a Leader to Learn from. The article highlights his Superintendent Strategy which keeps equity at the center. Stanford bilingual education study is cited.
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NEWS: As Parents Get More Choice, S.F. Schools Resegregate —
As Parents Get More Choice, S.F. Schools Resegregate
Jeremy Adam Smith, San Francisco Public Press
February 2, 2015
SF Public Press cites Prudence Carter's involvement in studying parent choices for the student assignment process.
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Stanford Principal Fellows program supports school leaders —
Stanford Principal Fellows program supports school leaders
Brooke Donald, GSE Intelligencer
September 2014
Abraham Lincoln High Principal Barnaby Payne, George Washington High Principal Ericka Lovrin, and Balboa High Principal Kevin Karr explain how the program helped them become more skillful and strategic leaders.
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Ethnic studies courses coming to all S.F. high schools —
Ethnic studies courses coming to all S.F. high schools
Jill Tucker, SF Gate
December 9, 2014
District Officials reference study outcomes resulting from Stanford/SFUSD Partnership Project.
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Stanford GSE pledges $5 million to partnership with San Francisco schools —
Stanford GSE pledges $5 million to partnership with San Francisco schools
Jonathon Rabinovitz, Stanford Graduate School of Education News
December 2, 2014
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L.A. Unified adopts free history curriculum from Stanford University —
L.A. Unified adopts free history curriculum from Stanford University
Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times
November 26, 2014
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New Stanford Program Texts Parents to Help Teach Their Kindergartners to Read —
New Stanford Program Texts Parents to Help Teach Their Kindergartners to Read
Kim McCallister, KGO 810 News
November 2014
KGO Local Bay Area News spotlights Stanford's Susanna Loeb and Ben York's literacy texting project with SFUSD's Carla Bryant and Meenoo Yashar from the Early Education Department.
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Text messaging program helps boost language skills in preschoolers, study finds —
Text messaging program helps boost language skills in preschoolers, study finds
May Wong, Stanford Graduate School of Education News
November 15, 2014
Stanford School of Education covers a partnership's project examining on the impact texting literacy tips has on pre-K student's literacy levels and parent engagement.
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To Help Language Skills of Children, a Study Finds, Text Their Parents with Tips —
To Help Language Skills of Children, a Study Finds, Text Their Parents with Tips
Motoko Rich, The New York Times
2014
The New York Times covers a partnership's project focusing on the impact texting literacy tips has on pre-K student's literacy levels and parent engagement.
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PRESS: Bilingual Education Could Make a Comeback —
Bilingual Education Could Make a Comeback
Lillian Mongeau, EdSource
July 29, 2014
This EdSource article summarizes the key findings from a Stanford Research around multilingual education pathways, where students in bilingual and dual immersion pathways were experiencing higher reclassification rates and higher test scores than their English-only counterparts at levels of middle school and beyond.
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Two-language instruction best for English-language learners, Stanford research suggests —
Two-language instruction best for English-language learners, Stanford research suggests
Andrew Myers, Stanford News
March 25, 2014
Like a growing number of school systems across the country, San Francisco Unified School District is tasked with educating increasing rolls of students for whom English is not their first language. In the United States, the school-aged population has grown a modest 10 percent in the last three decades, while the number of children speaking a language other than English at home has soared by 140 percent. Against this backdrop, researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and San Francisco Unified School District(link is external) are examining student performance in various types of English language learning programs.
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NEWS: SFUSD-Stanford Share Findings from English Learner Pathway Study —
SFUSD-Stanford Share Findings from English Learner Pathway Study
SFUSD Press Release
January 30, 2014
An announcement of data presented from the study on English Learner Proficiency rates in the English Learner Pathways. The press release summarizes the key takeaways from the findings.
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S.F. seen as model in bilingual education over English only —
S.F. seen as model in bilingual education over English only
Jill Tucker, SF Chronicle
February 13, 2014
Since Proposition 227 overwhelmingly passed in June 1998, it's been all about learning English, first and foremost - but not in San Francisco. Nearly 30 percent of the city's 17,000 English learners are in bilingual education programs, compared with 5 percent on average statewide, according to the most recent data available. And it's working, according to a recently published Stanford University study commissioned by the San Francisco Unified School District.
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History Detected —
History Detected: Give kids original source material, teach them how to weigh evidence and defend their conclusions, and they'll shine in class—and as citizens
Theresa Johnston, Stanford Magazine
May/June 2013
This article highlights Sam Wineburg's Teaching like a Historian project as a promising method of teaching critical thinking skills and reading comprehension with supplied insight from a sample classroom.
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Stanford Researchers bring life to high school history classes with a curriculum built around historical documents —
Stanford Researchers bring life to high school history classes with a curriculum built around historical documents
Brooke Donald, Stanford Report
March 5, 2012
"I always tell my students they're historians-in-training, so the work we do in here is that of a historian," Ziegler said. The nontraditional curriculum Ziegler uses, called Reading Like a Historian, was designed at Stanford and is among the projects of the Stanford History Education Group.
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SFUSD Partners with School of Education —
SFUSD Partners with School of Education
Mary Ann Toman-Miller, Stanford Daily
February 8, 2012
“In education, it is the worst of times and the best of times,” said Claude Steele, dean of the Stanford School of Education, at a lunchtime presentation Tuesday that discussed a partnership between Stanford and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Steele opened the event by stating that this “partnership is a model for how schools of education can relate to real school districts.”
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NEWS: New Preparation Program Puts Math, Science, and Bilingual Teachers in Residence at High Need School —
New Preparation Program Puts Math, Science, and Bilingual Teachers in Residence at High Need School
SFUSD Press Release
October 14, 2011
An announcement of the San Francisco Teacher Residency as one of 30 Transition to Teaching grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The San Francisco Teacher Residency is a unique partnership between the San Francisco Unified School District, the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, the United Educators of San Francisco, the San Francisco Education Fund, and Americorps.
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The Stanford/SFUSD Partnership: one pinch of happenstance, four parts strategy —
The Stanford/SFUSD Partnership: one pinch of happenstance, four parts strategy
Laura Wentworth, Your SF Public Schools
September 9, 2011
What's the recipe for a strong partnership between a school district and a university?
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School of Education and SF Unified get in step —
School of Education and SF Unified get in step
Marguerite Rigoglioso, Stanford University Graduate School of Education News
July 8, 2011
At Balboa High School in San Francisco, students in Raul Cuiriz’s history class are getting away from dull, dry history textbooks and digging into primary texts –– newspaper accounts, letters, eyewitness narratives, government documents. They’re analyzing and discussing this living material like historians. For these students, the new approach is making history stick: Last year, their state test scores were significantly improved.
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Press: How Stanford, S.F. Schools Learn from Each Other —
How Stanford, S.F. Schools Learn from Each Other
Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle
December 29, 2010The Reading Like a Historian curriculum is one of 20 to 30 projects linking the school district and Stanford - bringing some of the country's top academic minds into urban classrooms while offering researchers at the elite Peninsula university insight and access into K-12 living laboratories.
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