Customer Spotlight Series: Starr Detroit Academy

TeachBoost is excited to share our partners’ success stories with a larger audience through our Customer Spotlight Series!

The Spotlight Series is a multi-media project that offers a glimpse into the instructional leadership, classroom observation, and teacher development practices of the schools and school leaders that use TeachBoost to support their work.

Let’s start things off with a fantastic story of transformation out of the Midwest:

This year, Starr Detroit Academy has seen significant, positive shifts in educators’ daily practices and instructional capabilities; facilitated better relationships among teachers and administrators; and realized impressive student achievement gains.

In this Spotlight, learn how founding principal Jeremy Vidito and his staff leverage technology as a vehicle for advancing differentiated teacher development and instructional coaching.

• Hear first-hand the high-impact shifts that occur when schools address the unique challenges faced by every classroom teacher.
• Learn why it’s important to provide support and feedback that speaks to an educator’s individual needs.
• Come away with practical suggestions for sharing, scaling, and sustaining instructional practices that improve student outcomes.

Listen to the interview on SoundCloud, and follow Starr on Twitter at @StarrDetroit. You can also check out Jeremy’s presentation on instructional leadership at Learning Forward’s 2014 conference here.