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Discover successful schools and strategies across the country -- and use their best teaching practices, training materials, and rubrics with your students.

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TEACHER, CARRITHERS MIDDLE SCHOOL Darren Atkinson  Listen: Relationships with students are the foundation. Running Time: 0:42 sec. Click on arrow to start

PRINCIPAL, BRECKINRIDGE-FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Alicia Averette  Listen: Safe schools and nurturing staff enable success. Running Time: 0:22 sec. Click on arrow to start

PARENT, BRECKINRIDGE-FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Angela Sartin  Listen: When educators and parents talk, everyone wins. Running Time: 0:27 sec. Click on arrow to start

About Schools That Work

In this series, Schools That Work, Edutopia takes a deep look at what school successes are made of. How principals and teachers, parents and students, and schools and school districts collaborate to change the futures of their young people.

We share with you the blueprints that the change makers used -- the contracts, lesson plans, and teacher-training tools that could be relevant to your school and your path to change.

Then we do one more thing: We put you together with the change makers themselves. You will meet the teachers and administrators of Schools that Work in our groups and discussions. You will hear about the hurdles they overcame. You will discover how reform comes to life, and how it succeeds.

Welcome to Schools that Work. Join the movement for change.

Support for Edutopia's Schools That Work series is provided, in part,
by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.