OVERVIEW
Over the past decade, CEI-PEA has advanced school and system-level reforms, including:
- Restructured more than 45 large schools into sets of smaller learning communities to increase accountability and accelerate student achievement.
- Created and developed more than 30 public charter schools by helping schools with applications, renewals, Board development, facilities development, and resource development.
- Developed a network of more than 220 public schools to identify and adapt best practices through inter-visitations, study groups, peer workshops, and conferences.
- Selected by 55 public schools to serve as their Partnership Support Organization in New York City’s new school system that allows principals to select their preferred support organization from within or outside of the school system.
- Launched Project BOOST, a comprehensive after-school program that has led to increased admissions of mid-level performing middle school students into quality high schools.
- Leading the United States implementation of Kids’ ISO 14000, an international environmental education program, through major grants from Casio and Toyota.
- Created a teacher recruitment and retention program with Teach For America that provides intensive support to new teachers through mentoring and networking.
- Created an assistant principal leadership develop program to train and develop assistant principals to better support curriculum and instruction in their schools.
- Led a national public school choice program funded through a three-year grant from the United States Department of Education and implemented in major cities in the northeast and midwest.
- Awarded a $10.5 million Teacher Incentive Fund grant to develop the Partnership for Innovation in Compensation for Charter Schools program with 10 public charter schools in New York City.
- Helped launch school reforms in Argentina, Chile, Israel and Great Britain that adapt best practices from CEI-PEA’s work wtih U.S. urban school systems.
CEI-PEA is led by nationally-recognized educators who have all worked in public school systems as teachers, principals, superintendents and central administrators. CEI-PEA provides both direct technical assistance and network-based assistance to help improve the skills of teachers and school leaders, increase parent involvement, and channel cultural and academic intervention programs into public schools.
MEDIA
Sy Fliegel speaks with CUNY TV's Doug Muzzio about the reforms taking place in the New York City schools.
Chancellor Klein speaks about the state of urban education and plans for NYC's school system.
Marcia Lyles, NYC Deputy Chancellor at CEI-PEA Summer Leadership Institute
Carmen Farina, Former NYC Deputy Chancellor at CEI-PEA Summer Leadership Institute
CEI-PEA President on "City Talk"