Helping You Make "Best Practices" Your Practices

Springboard Schools provides professional development
services to help educators augment their expertise in areas proven to increase student and school performance. These areas include leadership, inquiry, best practices, and building professional learning communities for equity.

Our professional development offerings are research-based, yet firmly grounded in experience. They focus on implementing and sustaining specific, strategically selected changes in practice to improve student achievement and to accelerate the learning of the lowest performing students.

Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars

Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars are an interlocking series of workshops that make it possible for teacher-leaders, principals, district office staff, superintendents, and school board members to increase their knowledge and skills.  The modular format allows school districts to choose from a menu of options to build a customized plan that meets their most pressing needs. Seminars are delivered at your site or as scheduled, public events.

Best Practice Institutes

The Best Practices Institutes (BPIs) are intensive institutes designed to help governance teams, district staff, principals, and teacher-leaders learn to apply specific findings from the California Best Practices Study and elsewhere in their districts and schools. Designed to provide actionable information and tools quickly, BPIs are delivered at various locations around the state.

Executive Leadership Center

Springboard Schools and ACSA have formed a partnership to provide high quality, leading edge professional development for superintendents, in the form of the proven Executive Leadership Center (ELC) Seminars. The ELCs have been received with a tremendously positive response from the District and County Superintendents who have participated.

In the 2007-08 school year we will offer ELC Seminars in eight regions of California.

Leadership Networks

The Springboard Schools Leadership Networks provides ongoing professional development throughout the school year for teams of district staff, principals, and teacher-leaders. Participants create a professional learning community focused on achievement, equity and inquiry.

Catalogue of Services

Springboard Schools offers a wide variety of services and products developed and refined for educators, by educators. For a more complete overview of our services and products, we invite you to download and view our Catalogue of Services.
(PDF format, requires Adobe Acrobat)

Research Reports

• Balancing Act: Best Practices in the Middle Grades
• Minding the Gap: New Roles for School Districts in the Age of Accountability
• Challenged Schools, Remarkable Results: Three Lessons from California's Highest Achieving High Schools
• After the Test: How Schools are Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap
• The Cycle of Inquiry as the Engine of School Reform: Lessons from the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative

Videos & DVDs

• The Classroom Cycle of Inquiry: Teachers Making a Difference

On-Demand Professional Development

Springboard Schools provides custom professional development tailored to an individual district’s specific needs.