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Chelsea Waite

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Background

Chelsea Waite is a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Along with partners at Transcend and dozens of other collaborating organizations, she leads the Canopy project to build better collective knowledge on K–12 innovation from a diverse set of schools around the country. Before joining CRPE, Chelsea was an education research fellow at the Christensen Institute studying innovative school models, school change, student agency, and models for peer-to-peer support in K–12. Prior, she built partnerships and designed learning programs at Digital Promise, and taught English as the postsecondary level in the northeast of Brazil. Chelsea holds a BA in History from Brown University and an MSt in Social Innovation from Cambridge University. She is also accredited by the Partnership Brokers Association as a facilitator of multi-stakeholder collaborations.

chelsea.waite@asu.edu
Research Areas

Publications

When challenges never let up: School district leaders steer through hazards in Baltimore and Chicago

In the face of financial, political, and capacity constraints, leaders within the Baltimore City Public School System and Chicago Public Schools are making progress toward...
Paul Hill
Founder, CRPE and Professor of Practice, MLFTC
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Lydia Rainey
Principal
Chelsea Waite
Principal

A future beyond test scores alone: Innovative schools need support to measure other learning outcomes

Imagine a time traveler from 1924 arrives in 2024. She’s overwhelmed by how the world has changed, from ubiquitous smartphone use to widespread vaccine access....
Chelsea Waite
Principal
David Nitkin
Guest Author

A “good life” for every student: High schools embrace many pathways to success

CRPE & CPRL hosted a webinar on this report with the co-authors and report stakeholders. Check it out! https://youtu.be/z60wtyyXw_g Can the lessons schools learned in...
Chelsea Waite
Principal
Maddy Sims
Center for Public Research and Leadership

Are unconventional learning environments serving special populations?

The pandemic created further opportunity and accelerated a movement toward nontraditional learning environments, such as independent microschools, homeschool cooperatives, and hybrid or virtual schools. Though...
Chelsea Waite
Principal
Heather Casimere
Research Analyst Assistant

Innovation spotlights: Case studies in high school redesign

Educators nationwide are forging their way in a landscape rocked by pandemic-induced disruptions. Training resources designed to spark new thinking among school staff often feel...
Chelsea Waite
Principal
Cara Pangelinan
Research Analyst
Lisa Chu
Research Analyst
Maddy Sims
Center for Public Research and Leadership
Naureen Madhani
Director of Research Strategy and Consulting, CPRL
Heather Casimere
Research Analyst Assistant
Julia Skwarczynski
Guest Author
Joanna Pisacone
Guest Author

Unconventional private schools are attracting parents with tailored offerings. Public schools can, too.

Small learning environments that operate outside public schools—such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and learning pods—exploded into broad public consciousness during the pandemic. While many children...
Chelsea Waite
Principal

Innovation in New England

CRPE partnered with The BARR Foundation to map the New England region’s landscape of learning.
Cara Pangelinan
Research Analyst
Chelsea Waite
Principal
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Heather Casimere
Research Analyst Assistant
Lisa Chu
Research Analyst

Teachers want to innovate. Schools that don’t let them are losing out

This piece was originally published in The 74. Waite: Education entrepreneurs are taking their creativity and ingenuity to hybrid schools and microschools — and taking...
Chelsea Waite
Principal

SEL, mentoring, career prep: Schools that deliver what parents say they want

This piece was originally published in The 74. Waite: Changing the DNA of how schools educate students is hard, long-term work. A diverse set of...
Chelsea Waite
Principal

Trends in education innovation from 161 school leaders

What it looks like to embrace the strengths, passions and needs of each student, particularly those who have been historically underserved.
Chelsea Waite
Principal

From a Lakota-focused microschool to service opportunities for kids with disabilities, innovations from 161 schools to aid marginalized students

This year’s Canopy data suggest schools are innovating is to design solutions to the problems most often faced by marginalized students and families.
Chelsea Waite
Principal

For these six schools, pandemic-era innovation demanded “know thyself”

Over the past year, we worked with six high schools in New England to learn how they’re reimagining the high school experience.
Chelsea Waite
Principal

These 232 innovative schools are challenging old assumptions about education

A diverse array of communities are working to reinvent schooling in pursuit of their visions for thriving young people and families.
Chelsea Waite
Principal

New England Profiles of Innovation | Common Ground High School

This profile of Common Ground High School in New Haven details the school’s practices that have made it successful, how they have adapted in the...
Chelsea Waite
Principal
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