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How can technology be used to truly enhance outcomes for students? Eva Moskowitz on March 31, 2016 How can technology be used to truly enhance outcomes for students? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 615.2k views Schooling still operates in the 19th century. We need to revolutionize everything about schooling. Technologically, much of what needs to change is less front-end than the back-end systems. From taking attendance to tracking free and reduced-price lunch to data analytics around special education, it is all pretty primitive. We also must make our systems of delivering education more openly a...  Read More » What is the most compelling evidence/data that Success Academy Charter Schools are succeeding? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 210.9k views There are many measures of successful schooling both qualitative and quantitative. We believe that one of the most important of these is whether kids love coming to school. Is school sufficiently interesting and compelling? We know from the kids, but also reports from parents that most Success Academy families are extremely satisfied with the quality of education their children get from us. (O...  Read More » Why are Success Academy Charter Schools so strict? Why so many suspensions? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 210k views We believe in rules because children learn best when the learning environment is safe and orderly. Because the city’s district schools have such severe disciplinary problems, the mere existence of “rules” has become controversial. Violence in the New York City school system has risen to its highest levels in a decade. Our high standards for conduct — and the resulting safety and joyful atmosphe...  Read More » How are Success Academy Charter Schools different from other public / charter / private schools? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 6.9k views We are unique in a few different ways. First, we are a pre-k to high school set of schools. We are progressive in our pedagogic methods while being old fashioned when it comes to conduct. We celebrate joyful rigor and believe in reading more than most schools in America. We also believe that schools are places that must teach kids right from wrong. Last year, we received more than 1,000 re...  Read More » Which of the major presidential candidates get it most right on education? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 5.9k views Education is a state and local problem. Rhetorically, none of them are grappling with the fundamental crisis in public education in America.  Read More » Why is the New York Times so critical of Success Academy Charter Schools? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 5.3k views It is a good question. The Times has done a dozen articles on SA in the last year. I think there is a sense that our student results are too good to be true, that educating economically disadvantaged children exceptionally well — indeed, better than many wealthy suburban areas in NY — is not possible. And so they are inclined to do “exposés.” The evidence that the Times’ has trouble refuting...  Read More » How do you measure success at Success Academy Charter School? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 4.6k views We measure everything, and our data analytics are very robust. We do regular internal assessments. We check scholar reading logs and track attendance. If we care about, it we measure it...and because we serve little kids they change and develop quickly. What mastery looks like in August of kindergarten is very different from what we see in November. So the assessments need to be made frequentl...  Read More » What conceptual math should children learn in schools? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 4.1k views At SA we believe in conceptual math, pre-k through high school, and we have developed our own math curriculum. Mathematical reasoning is very weak in this country and conceptual math will strengthen that considerably.  Read More » How does your school address the fundamental socioeconomic challenges faced by your students at home? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 3.9k views Students who live in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods face far greater challenges than their peers in wealthier areas. Our students’ parents often struggle with housing, health-care, and violence in their neighborhoods. In addition, if you are the first in your family to go to college, as many of our students are, you have less educational capital to obtain from your parents. But despit...  Read More » Can Success Academy's model make a much broader impact in all of New York's K-12 education? Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools 3.4k views Yes, it can in several ways. First, by sharing our curriculum and training methods, which we do extensively, and second by showing what is possible in public education.  Read More »   Read More from this Session We sent you this email because you follow Education.Unfollow Education This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Choose which emails we send you through Email Settings or Unsubscribe.