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  ESI Update Week of April 7     Principals and ESI Team Members, This week, Research Alliance released “Promising Opportunities for Black and Latino Young Men: Findings from the Early Implementation of the Expanded Success Initiative.” The report examines challenges schools experienced during Year 1 of the Initiative, as well as changes in school practice that hold promise for reaching ESI’s goals. Once again we thank schools for opening their doors to work with Research Alliance and their research team as we all, as a community, continue to investigate, strategize, and implement what we are learning. Please note, the ESI Update will not be published while Read More >

View this email in your browser     Save The Date Join us on June 12th for the 3rd Annual ESI Symposium! Where: Brooklyn Law School Subotnik Center – 10th Floor 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Doors open at 3:45 p.m. Refreshments will be served. More details to come!  

ESI Update Week of March 31   Principals and ESI Team Members, Recently, administrators from ESI schools participated in panel discussions around improving outcomes for Black and Latino young men and the academic programming that will help ensure that they graduate college and career ready. At Expanding the Success of Black and Latino Young Men, a panel discussion held by the CUNY Institute for Education Policy at Hunter College, Shawn Dove (Campaign for Black Male Achievement – Open Society Foundations), Adriana Villavicencio (from ESI’s external evaluator, Research Alliance) and Michael Prayor (ESI principal at Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology) spoke to Read More >

    ESI Update Week of March 24   Principals and ESI Team Members, We continue to see exciting strategies being implemented across ESI schools. Last week Urban Assembly for Careers in Sports and Science Genius were in the news. (Click here to see the news video on Urban Assembly and Science Genius.) Science Genius is an exciting program that infuses hip hop, which is part of the culture of many of our ESI young men, into science classes. This year, ESI partnered with the creators behind the program, Dr. Chris Emdin, Professor at Teachers College, and GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan. Science Genius is the Read More >