Boston Collegiate Charter School has become a leader and source of support to other schools in the state, throughout the region, across the nation, and even around the world. One of the key objectives highlighted in our 2007 and 2011 strategic plans is the goal of sharing our work with others. To start, in November of 2005, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education approved our request to expand our enrollment by 240 students. We will continue to grow until we are serving over 600 students to help to meet the high level of demand from Boston families for high-quality college preparatory programs. In addition, we are focused as a school on collaboration with others. Charter schools were originally created to serve as labs of innovation, developing best practices and then sharing them widely to improve the work of all schools. Focusing on collaboration allows us to fulfill our charge as a charter school, and it feels to us like the right thing to do and the approach that is most consistent with who we are as a school. It also feels like the way we can have the most significant impact, allowing our influence to extend far beyond the walls of our school.

We typically partner with others to share our work around the following topics:

• College Readiness Programming
• Teacher Development
• Leadership Development
• College-Preparatory Curriculum

Partnerships typically include the sharing of materials, visits to Boston Collegiate from the partner school and visits to the partner school from Boston Collegiate, and ongoing coaching and support from Boston Collegiate teachers and leaders.

If you are interested in partnering with Boston Collegiate on any of the above topics or would like to propose a different area for collaboration, please contact Kate Goldenheim, Director of Special Projects.

At Boston Collegiate, we mentor and support other school leaders from both new and established schools on an ongoing basis. Further, we frequently host other schools and school leaders for visits to our campus. We have welcomed many visitors during the 2010-11 school year, including the following:

• Academy of the Pacific Rim (Boston, MA)
• Achievement First (New Haven, CT and New York, NY)
• Achievement Prep (Washington, DC)
• Beauchamp College (East Midlands, England)
• Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public Schools (Adams, MA)
• Building Excellent Schools (Boston, MA)
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin (Cambridge, MA)
• Chavez Schools (Washington, DC)
• City on a Hill Charter Public High School (Boston, MA)
• Cristo Rey High School (Boston, MA)
• Epiphany School (Boston, MA)
• Explore Charter School (New York, NY)
• Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, MA)
• KIPP Atlanta Collegiate (Atlanta, GA)
• KIPP Gaston College Preparatory (Gaston, NC)
• I Can Schools (Cleveland, OH)
• MATCH Charter Public School (Boston, MA)
• Mother Caroline Academy (Boston, MA)
• North Star Academy (Newark, NJ)
• Pioneer Charter School of Science (Everett, MA)
• Prospect Hill Academy (Somerville, MA)
• Shohoku College (Kanagawa, Japan)
• Suffolk University (Boston, MA)
• The Breakthrough Collaborative (San Francisco, CA)
• UMASS Amherst (Amherst, MA)
• UP Academy Charter School of Boston (Boston, MA)
• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• West Denver Prep (Denver, CO)

To schedule a visit to BCCS, please contact Kate Goldenheim, Director of Special Projects.

Schools That Can

In 2011, Boston Collegiate was named a member of Schools That Can, a national non-profit network of high-performing schools working in low-income communities. Through participation in the Schools That Can network, we have the opportunity to collaborate with district, private, and charter schools throughout Boston and around the country. Learn more about Schools That Can here.

Achievement Network

In 2005, Boston Collegiate joined the Achievement Network as a founding member to support our goals of enhancing our use of data to drive instruction and sharing best practices with other public schools. The Achievement Network administers six interim assessments annually to students in grades five through eight and facilitates content-specific school leadership sessions over the course of the year. Learn more about the Achievement Network here.

Massachusetts Charter Public School Association

In the fall of 2006, BCCS was selected as one of five schools in Massachusetts to participate in a three-year, federally funded grant overseen by the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association. "Keeping the Promise: The Massachusetts Charter School Dissemination and Replication Project" involved BCCS in a large and far-reaching dissemination project, including:

• A published book, Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in High-Performing Schools, by Harvard professor Katherine Merseth. This book describes key components of our program. Click here for more information;
• A documentary film, "Beating the Odds: Inside Five Urban Charter Schools." This film brings to life the key practices of our school.
• Study tours, institutes, and conferences around the country. With a focus on teacher development, we engaged current and future school leaders on topics of classroom observations and school-based teacher professional development.

To learn more or to visit our school, please contact Kate Goldenheim, Director of Special Projects.