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Problem: Abner S. Baker Central School in Fort Morgan, Colo., was not making Adequate Yearly Progress and wanted to enhance the faculty's collaboration skills.
Solution: After obtaining a comprehensive school reform grant in 2002, the administration chose an assessment program to help them achieve their goals.
The school is set up in four "pods," two each for fifth and sixth grades, and teachers keep the sane student for both grades. Principal Cynthia Price says the Pearson Achievement Solutions system allows teachers to be very familiar with their students, and although the teachers within a pod met regularly, there wasn't a "professional community" of…
Source: HighBeam Research, Collaborating for success.(Abner S. Baker Central School enhances...