We’re presenting! Register for the 2021 NEASC Virtual Conference to see us in action during our on-demand poster sessions.

This year’s convention theme is ‘What If…?’, inspired by a shared aspiration across the NEASC community to explore possibilities in education and look to the future for all of our schools. Events of the past 18 months have opened up new possibilities, shined a light where it was needed, and given us the opportunity — whether by necessity or choice — to try some new approaches to teaching, learning, and leadership. We have now entered an exciting phase of questioning how we “do school” and how we might do it differently and better, starting with “What If…?”

Poster Session #1: Shift Teacher Mindsets & School Practices with the Student Experience SurveyHighlander Institute's Student Experience Survey (SES) helps educators understand how students are experiencing learning through five domains: Sociocultural Awareness, Community Building, Academic Mindset, Cognitive Development, and Critical Consciousness. Survey results may be disaggregated by gender, race and ethnicity, lunch status, and learning profile to raise awareness of how different student groups can perceive the same classroom differently based on their lived experiences. Responses help teachers develop immediate action steps to improve the learning experience for specific students, centering student feedback in intervention efforts. Early results show connections between shifts in teacher mindset and behaviors, student growth within survey domains, and student academic growth.  More

Presenter: Karina Rodriguez, Senior Data Partner

Poster Session #2: Centering on Instructional Equity: A Framework to Activate Critical Consciousness

Presenter: Malika Ali, Managing Partner