CARE
Network
The High Tech High Graduate School of Education, in partnership with CREATE at UC San Diego and the California Math Project, has formed the CARE Network with the aim to increase the number of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income students with strong academic identities who are on track by 8th grade to graduate high school and succeed in college and careers.
Systematic Caring Makes Success the Only Option
Why the Care Network?
Increase Student Success
Increase the number of 8th grade students who have a strong academic identity and are on track for success.
The Power of Networks
The CARE Network is a learning network focused on testing and sharing data routines and change ideas that get results.
Create a Learning Culture
CARE teams engage in regular inquiry cycles building capacity to create learning cultures at their schools.
Build Effective Data Routines
CARE teams track and learn from data to drive effective decision-making.
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A Network for Our Times
As remote and hybrid learning becomes our new reality, it has become critical to set up structures to address the inherent challenges and inequities that inevitably occur with online education. The CARE Network is designed to support middle school educators in navigating these challenges together, in our current reality and in the future. Specifically, the network will focus on four critical drivers that support students in graduating middle school on track to succeed:
- Early warning systems for noticing when students are struggling, and working collaboratively to design and track interventions that help students succeed (Allensworth et al., 2014)
- Strong student-teacher relationships where adults know students well, see them as whole people, and nurture their positive identity development (Wang & Eccles, 2013)
- Culturally responsive instruction that disrupts inequitable status dynamics and builds diverse students’ cognitive capacities, while affirming their identities as learners and sense of belonging (Ladson-Billings, 1992; 1995; 1998; Brown, 2007)
- Supportive 8th-9th grade transition so students are able to start strong and stay on-track in 9th grade (Christie & Zinth, 2008)
