Boston Teacher Residency

Before and after images from the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School's opening year.

This first issue in the series introduces the bold instructional model of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School.

This evening BPE will convene community members at Hibernian Hall to celebrate great teaching and unite around a common vision of student success. At the event, BPE will unveil plans to pursue three strategies: 1) Prepare and support diverse, highly effective teachers for Boston’s schools through a best-in-class teacher preparation and development program; 2) Ensure broad student success in partner schools by cultivating ambitious instruction in every classroom with a coherent, data-driven approach to school improvement; and 3) Create break-the-mold new schools that ensure all students are prepared to succeed in college and career.

This week, the Board of Trustees of the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) voted that Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) head Jesse Solomon will lead BPE in a convergence of the two organizations that promises to break new ground in improving schools in Boston. He will succeed Ellen Guiney as executive director this June. Under Guiney’s leadership for the last sixteen years, BPE worked closely with Boston Public Schools (BPS) and helped to establish a clear focus and goals that lead to great progress and to steadily rising MCAS scores. Many strategies that BPE has developed have influenced schools across the country.

The newly configured organization will continue to focus on accelerating gains in student learning and supporting teachers and leaders to help students achieve them. The organization plans to open and manage a few schools as teacher preparation academies.