REL Southwest Event: Building a System of Great Schools: The What, So What, and Now What?

Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Central time)

Location: Webinar

Description: Join the REL Southwest, the Texas Education Agency, and the Texas Comprehensive Center for a webinar on school portfolio management. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the research surrounding school portfolio management, followed by an engaging discussion around defining school quality (the “What?”), mapping school quality to potential school interventions (the “So What?"), and orchestrating an annual decisionmaking cycle to ensure that school interventions maximize impact for students (the “Now What?"). Current district efforts to implement school portfolio management will be profiled as examples.

Susan Bowles Therriault, Ed.D., will provide a national perspective on school portfolio management. Star Wallin, who has worked closely with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) will guide the conversation with Eric Gordon, CEO of CMSD. Finally, Mike Herschenfeld will present an overview of the Texas System of Great Schools Network. There will be opportunities throughout the webinar for gathering input from participants through question and answer, sharing, and polling.

Audience: This webinar is designed for state and district leaders, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers interested in school portfolio management and strategies.

Speakers:

• Susan Bowles Therriault, Ed.D., Managing Researcher, American Institutes for Research
• Star Wallin, Founder, Bell Creek Consulting
• Eric Gordon, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Metropolitan School District
• Mike Herschenfeld, Manager, District Strategy and Innovation, Texas Education Agency