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48. Forward Together (w/ WASDA's Damian LaCroix) (opens the original)
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Derek talks with Damian LaCroix, who became executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA) on July 1 after 33 years in public education, including nearly 20 as a superintendent in Howard-Suamico. Derek raises a pattern out of a summer spent in the data: roughly 53 Wisconsin districts that are small and rural, with older communities and fewer households with children in school — and higher property tax rates, meaning they are doing more locally to fund t
47. Which Improvement Approaches Really Work and Why? (opens the original)
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We're joined today by Harvard's Jal Mehta and Radford's Max Yurkovsky to discuss their new book, A Chance to Solve Their Own Problems: Inside the New Methods to Remake Public Schools. Their project was motivated by a fascinating question: Why do reforms sometimes work? The resulting book splits the difference between "improvement is impossible" and "improvement is easy if you just use this one neat trick." It's a fascinating conversation with a lot for school leaders to chew on. Links to other w
46. What Surveys Can Tell You That Nothing Else Can (opens the original)
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A summary of a summer's worth of research on all of our climate surveys and what they mean for the outcomes that districts and states tend to track, with a bonus section on Wisconsin referendums -- what impacts they have on various outcomes, how our surveys predict passage and vote share, and so on.
45. There's a Lot of Hope in this Survey Data: Student Engagement through the Pandemic (opens the original)
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Dr. Ashley Carey joins us to talk about her recently-published study on students' experience of the Covid years. Tracking student survey data across six years and nearly 100,000 survey responses from Massachusetts schools, Ashley ranges from the specific findings of her paper to broader questions about what schools should be accountable for, what the pandemic did and didn't do to students, and what survey data can tell us that test scores never will.
44. You Can't Walk Up to a Stranger and Ask Them for Money (opens the original)
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This week, Mia Trippi , Senior Director of Public Affairs at Mueller Communications , joins us to unpack how public institutions build — and lose — the trust that makes hard conversations possible. She talks about why the act of communicating sometimes matters more than what you're actually saying, how a website's ease of navigation predicts public trust more than you might expect, and the many pitfalls public institutions encounter as they try to engage their constituents.
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