ExtraOrdinary Districts

Recent Episodes

Panel Discussion on “Fast Improvement in Delaware”

Posted December 16, 2019 • 01:14:43

To talk about the progress Seaford has made in the last few years (episode #4) Ed Trust brought together Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public...

Seaford, Delaware: Fast Improvement in Delaware

Posted December 9, 2019 • 00:51:43

Seaford, Delaware, was the “Nylon Capital of the World” until DuPont closed its plant. Today it has twice the rate of poverty as the rest of the...

Discussion of Lane, Oklahoma

Posted December 1, 2019 • 00:52:42

Panel Discussion of “Exposing and Learning From Expertise” with reading researcher Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois-Chicago’s Steve Tozer,...

Lane, OK: Exposing and Learning from Success

Posted November 24, 2019 • 00:54:56

A small, kindergarten-through-8th-grade district in rural Oklahoma, Lane was identified by Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford...

Live! With ExtraOrdinary Districts – A Discussion on District Improvement

Posted November 17, 2019 • 01:06:01

To kick off Season 2 of ExtraOrdinary Districts, we brought together an all-star panel to discuss school district improvement. Janice Jackson, CEO of...