EdVestors announces Boston Community Leadership Academy as the 2009 School on the Move Prize winner! The annual $100,000 citywide award highlights the achievements of schools that are making significant progress towards closing the achievement gaps for all students. For more information, please click HERE.

Press play to view the video from the first annual School on the Move awards ceremony

2006 School on the Move Prize-Winner:

Sarah Greenwood K-8 School

The School on the Move 2006 Best Practice Case Study - Continuous Efforts, Continuous Improvement: Student Achievment at the Sarah Greenwood School

The Thomas W. Payzant School on the Move Prize highlights the challenging and less publicized achievements of schools that are demonstrating success in accelerating student achievement.

Awards $100,000 annually to one of the most improving Boston Public Schools
Fosters sharing of best practices across schools
Leverages EdVestors' rigorous due diligence and knowledge of schools
Highlights the continued focus on improving every Boston Public School
Deepens the civic conversatioon about what it really takes to improve our city's schools - and what it looks like when we get there

2007 School on the Move Prize-Winner:

Excel High School

South Boston, MA

School Improvement Story:

One of Boston's newly restructured small high schools, Excel High School was created in 2001 out of the old South Boston High School. In 2004, Excel's faculty and staff worked together to design a new mission for the school which shifted away from an over-arching theme of technology to a focus on academics where technology was a means to an end. The process of deveopling a new mission and shared vision for the students led to broad ownership among the faculty and administrators.

At Excel, teachers are organized into academic departments and collaborate extensively to ensure students progressively build the skills to be successful in each successive grade. The benefit of this collaboration extends to Excel's Vietnamese Sheltered English Immersion students and students with special needs where teachers have developed a curriculum that closely parallels the regular education curriculum to ensure that students be mainstreamed as soon as they are ready.

School on the Move

The Thomas W. Payzant School on the Move Prize builds on EdVestors’ reputation for rigorous due diligence and expertise to manage a selection process with an external panel that employs both quantitative data and qualitative review. This process clearly identifies schools that are demonstrating success in accelerating student achievement among diverse populations. The Prize itself will provide both visibility and incentive to schools to share strategies and best practices with other schools.