Diverse Charters Pedro Noguera

RiShawn Biddle We live in hope and have much work to do. Perhaps if we can stop worshipping and defending what we have already built, we can focus better on building what we urgently need.

"We must choose, these leaders tell us, either 'neighborhood schools' or 'school choice,' progress or stasis, stability or disruption, equity or excellence, improvement or innovation, the existing system or no system at all." It's time for new leadership. forwarded.online/index.php/we-n…

"We need education leaders who speak the truth & face the future bravely...Zero-sum rhetoric fuels the passage of reactionary #edpolicy, masks ongoing inequities in existing systems, & encourages defensiveness, complacency, & carelessness." #Denver 7/15-19 edsystemsleadership.org

“We probably are not going to be able to mandate our way to integration and we definitely shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that Black and Brown students need white students in their classrooms in order to achieve,” said Parker Baxter. Learn more: edsystemsleadership.org

Today @ 1pm MT: New research from CU Denver SPA We use student-level data from 40K+ students to evaluate the effects of Denver Public Schools' reform strategy on student achievement systemwide and the effects of three primary interventions #edpolicy #edcolo ucdenver.zoom.us/j/96998622262

It is one thing to argue that school systems w. large numbers of low-income & students of color cannot improve when there is not strong evidence to the contrary. It is something else entirely to continue to claim this is impossible in the face of overwhelming evidence of success.

Scream it from the rooftops!

I'm so honored former Denver superintendents Michael Bennet & Tom Boasberg accepted my invitation to write white paper reflecting on experience leading reforms which new CU Denver SPA research shows were among most comprehensive & effective in U.S. history. publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/cepa

Learn more about new research from CEPA CU Denver SPA here publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/cepa and check out the study summary, technical report, and a white paper from former #Denver Superintendents Michael Bennet and Tom Boasberg. #edpolicy #edreform #edleadership #systemsleadership #edchat

Watch my conversation with #Denver superintendents Michael Bennet & Tom Boasberg CU Denver SPA about their new white paper Leading for Equity and Student Growth: Lessons from the Transformation of #Denver Public Schools: tinyurl.com/CEPA-Bennet-Bo… White paper publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/cepa

I am so honored Michael Bennet & Tom Boasberg accepted my invitation to reflect on new evidence of success: "Leading for Equity & Student Growth: Lessons from the Transformation of the #Denver Public Schools" Watch: tinyurl.com/CEPA-Bennet-Bo… Read: publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/cepa #edpolicy

""We needed to reinvent systems that had long mirrored and perpetuated inequities in society. This called for a set of pervasive, difficult and sustained changes. Each change mattered, but each mattered more as one of a series in a connected whole."

Education systems are experiencing massive change. The Education Systems Leadership & Policy Institute is a 5-day graduate seminar CU Denver SPA in Denver, CO designed for current and aspiring leaders engaged in systems transformation and redesign. July 14 - 18, 2025 Apply now.

Commentary: How Denver’s school reforms raised grad rate, got kids years of extra learning buff.ly/4be2dAZ

A lot of attention has been on the problems Milwaukee MPS - Denver (along with NOLA and DC, and the ongoing work in HOU) shows what possible. 🔑: Give families choices empower educators get Central Office bureaucracy out of the way, & hold ALL schools accountable for outcomes

I have a new opinion piece at the The 74 Million about what struggling school systems can learn from the transformation of public education in Denver, Colorado. Transformative change does not come easily, but dramatic improvement is possible.