BOARD RESOURCES
DSST Materials
DSST Strategic Plan - Presentation
News Sources/Articles/Videos
News Sources
- Chalkbeat - Terrific news source for all things education in Colorado and Denver
- The 74 - Excellent news site covering education in America
- The Century Foundation - New York think tank that has done some terrific work and research on Integrated Schools
- A+ Colorado - Research and Advocacy Organization focus on education in Colorado
Articles
- 2018 infusion Reading List - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OhNwFxj2jfKnIfQzIYmDuE0oP_xXF1D-wuvlOLiOiYs/edit?usp=sharing
- Denver School of Science and Technology: Students of All Backgrounds Preparing for One Bright Future - https://tcf.org/content/report/denver-school-science-technology/
- Learn Together, Live Together: A Call to Integrate Denver's Schools - http://apluscolorado.org/reports/2018-learn-together/
- The Outliers: The State of Colorado School Districts 2018 - http://apluscolorado.org/reports/the-outliers-the-state-of-colorado-school-districts-2018/
- Making School Integration Work for the 21st Century - https://www.the74million.org/article/boser-and-baffour-making-school-integration-work-for-the-21st-century
- As Denver gentrifies, which neighborhoods are losing public school students? - http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/06/21/as-denver-gentrifies-which-neighborhoods-are-losing-public-school-students/
- Dallas Schools, Long Segregated, Charge Forward on Diversity - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/us/dallas-schools-desegregation.html
- Harvard's new initiative on "Reimagining Integration" - https://rides.gse.harvard.edu
- David Leonhardt's series on the vast differences in how colleges and universities serve, and don't serve, low income students - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/sunday/americas-great-working-class-colleges.html
- The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce - https://cew.georgetown.edu/publications/reports/
- Andy Stern's book on the future of the american workforce - http://a.co/4pa11sb
- This American Life - The Problem We All Live With - In this series of episodes, reporters Chana Joffe-Walt and Nikole Hannah Jones radically reframed a familiar and entrenched problem: American schools are racially segregated and unequal.
- Even with Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges than 35 Years Ago https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmative-action.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation&action=click&contentCollection=education®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
- How to Conquer the Admissions Essay https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/education/edlife/college-application-essay-admissions.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-4&action=click&contentCollection=Education%20Life®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
- New Study Highlights How College Visits Boost Chances at Selective Colleges https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2017/08/23/new-study-highlights-how-college-visits-boost-admissions-chances-at-selective-colleges/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
- Exclusive Data Shows Charter School Students Graduating College at Three to Five Times National Average https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-data-shows-charter-school-students-graduating-college-at-three-to-five-times-national-average
- Uncommon Schools is Guiding Alumni Through College Graduation https://www.the74million.org/article/how-uncommon-schools-is-guiding-alumni-through-college-graduation-gpa-sat-scores-a-dirty-little-secret
- Achievement Firsts’ Ambitious Alumni Goal https://www.the74million.org/article/achievement-firsts-ambitious-alumni-goal-75-college-success-rate
- Suburban Grade Inflation… https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/suburban-grade-inflation/536595/
- Why Universities are Phasing Out Luxury Dorms https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-universities-are-phasing-out-luxury-dorms/537492/
- Telling Freshman Trends https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/education/edlife/a-few-telling-freshman-trends.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation-edlife
YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/user/DSSTPUBLICSCHOOLS
- Specific videos on our YouTube channel are –
- An ode to DSST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3nKvEriE4
- The #1 Noel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FNx6rjVLw
- Some of our staff member interview series to get a sense for people’s stories for how they come to the work and how they think of it:
- Senior signing day 2019 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvLUWVuUEEU
- Our Cole senior video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se_erlXzoVE
- Our master teacher series from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfV6XPKBhrA&t=472s
- The whole “What Makes DSST: ____ Special?” series (here’s Montview HS’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gsMdliKa7M)
- The whole “A Minute at DSST: ____” series (here’s Byers HS’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU934-BJzP8)
- Our student recruitment myth debunking series – a couple of examples:
- The slice of pi video focused on our founding board https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFOPrJrD_8
- One of our first all network professional vids from 2013 to see how what we focus on and care about is consistent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0OzWXDv_3I&t=51s
- Our podcast! The Master Teacher https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-master-teacher/id1516536916
- Specific videos on our YouTube channel are –