This year’s sessions are organized into six strands:

1. Accelerated Learning in English and Mathematics: credit recovery, extra time and support, proficiency-based instruction
2. Continuous Program Improvement: sustaining reform, professional development, leadership capacity/distribution, use of common planning time
3. Career Academies and Career/Technical Education (CTE): national standards of practice, integrating CTE and academic subjects
4. Postsecondary Readiness: distributed guidance, tracking student progress through and beyond high school; advisory and student support practices
5. Detracking Issues and Practices: gaining parents’/teachers’ support, eliminating remedial courses/programs, instructional practice, support for students
6. Planning and Supporting High School Transformation: launching small learning communities/career academies/small schools, prep for external project review, grant writing, master class scheduling