181:. In high school, Shael Polakow-Suransky paired his fellow students with younger children in a peer-education program that promoted conversations about tolerance; the program spread throughout his school district. He spent his senior year conducting an independent study in Durban, South Africa, at the height of the anti-Apartheid movement. He studied education and urban studies at
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In 2004, Polakow-Suransky joined the central office at the
Department of Education. He first served as Deputy CEO for the Office of New Schools. The new small schools are earning success with some of the student groups who have historically been most at-risk. A 2013 study by the nonpartisan research
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Polakow-Suransky later became the Deputy
Chancellor for Performance and Accountability. As the Department of Education shifted its focus to accountability, he launched a program called Design Your Own Assessment, which ultimately involved more than 200 schools, to create innovative teacher designed
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on the importance of meaningful play in pre-K classrooms as a foundation for successful life-long learning. In May 2015, he was elected to the Board of
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Academic Officer and Senior Deputy Chancellor. In this role, he oversaw the Division of Academics, Performance, and Support, which had over 1,280 employees and an annual budget of $ 400 million. The division was responsible for providing instructional resources,
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English language learners face, Polakow-Suransky founded a new, small school, Bronx International High School, in 2001. In order to be admitted to the school, students had to fail the City's English language assessment and had to be recent immigrants to the
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calls the "instructional core," or "the relationship between teachers and students in the presence of content". Polakow-Suransky led the City's work around increasing college and career readiness rates, including through new accountability measures.
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firm MDRC found that small schools, "which serve mostly disadvantaged students of color," achieve graduation rates 9.5 percentage points higher than other schools who serve comparable students and lead to higher college readiness rates.
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