Massachusetts Charter Public School Association

Sharing Best Practices and Innovations: Keeping the Promise

Currently, MCPSA is engaged in a federally-funded, 3-year endeavor, Keeping the Promise: the Massachusetts Charter School Dissemination and Replication Project (KTP). Through KTP, MCPSA studied 5 high-performing urban schools, documented their keys to success, produced papers, research findings, and a film, and offered study tours. The goal is documentation, dissemination, and replication of critical and common practices in high-performing urban charter schools.

To view the papers produced as part of this project, learn more about the research findings and film (including where to order): follow this link.

Sharing Best Practices and Innovations: Past Efforts

In the past, MCPSA worked in two major ways to share the best practices and innovations of Massachusetts charter public schools:

Through a U.S. DOE grant to document and share exemplary whole school models, and through the MCPSA Fellowship Program, which highlighted the best practices of individual fellows.

The federally funded MCPSA Exemplary Whole School Model Dissemination Program enabled MCPSA to provide grants to Massachusetts charter public schools, so they could document the combination of factors that made their schools successful.

The MCPSA Fellowship Program provided stipends to individuals—teachers, administrators, and trustees—enabling them to document specific and innovative classroom and administrative practices, and present their work at the Annual MCPSA Best Practices and Innovations Showcase.

Use the links below, or the navigation bar to the left, to learn more About MCPSA and these efforts to disseminate the best practices and innovations of Massachusetts charter public schools.