Using Take One! for School Success

Independent evaluations, as well as the schools themselves using Take One!, are reporting positive outcomes that include a strong learning culture, sharing of teaching best practices and improved student test scores.

In Georgia, Stonewall Tell Elementary School, a Title I school, signed up its entire faculty for Take One!—including administrators. School faculty members report positive changes in the learning culture among students and teachers, as well as stronger linkages between teaching practice and student learning. Test scores are improving.
For more information, visit www.nbpts.org/stonewall.

In California, Julius Corsini Elementary School, a Title I school, enrolled its entire faculty in either Take One! or full candidacy for National Board Certification. The principal, a National Board Certified Teacher herself, reports that the experience brought the teachers closer together as a staff in a professional learning community sharing best practices. The school reports that test scores are improving.
For more information, visit www.nbpts.org/corsini.

In Virginia, nearly the entire faculty at Hampton High School completed or is currently enrolled in Take One!—and many are first- or second-year teachers. The school, 85 percent minority and 43 percent on free and reduced lunch, reports that the Take One! process has broken down barriers and has changed the culture of the school.
For more information, visit www.nbpts.org/hampton.