Alec Patton talks to Dr. Kim Carter, superintendent of Battle Creek Public Schools in Michigan, about how her district broke a pattern of outmigration through building relationships with families and local businesses and nonprofits based on transparency and LOTS of conversations.

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Alec Patton talks to Paola Capó-García about "Politics of the Personal," the twelfth-grade English project she created in which students chose a topic of personal interest to write an essay about—and create a piñata

Read more of Paola's poetry

See photos from the project

Learn how you can do professional development with Paola and the rest of the team

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Bell Middle School reduced its D/F rate from 51% in 2022 to 28% in 2024. That's a 23 percentage point reduction.

Even more impressive, for low income students, the D/F rate was 67% in 2022, and Bell cut it by more than half, down to 29% in 2024.

In this episode, Alec Patton talks to science teacher Teddy Meckstroth about how they did it.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman
• How to do the 2x10 Strategy (article) (video)
• The CARE Network

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