Schools where students living in poverty thrive typically operate with a pair of key design principles
These findings present a golden opportunity for synthesizing the best research and practice into transformational design principles, two of which hold promise for turning around struggling high-poverty schools into learning institutions that are second to none.
Design principle one: Create communities of compassion, inclusion and identity-safety.
Design principle two: Create communities of intellectual excitement, rigor and relevance.
These two design principles form the DNA for transforming high-poverty schools into vibrant learning communities.
Learn more about these design principles here.
