2009 Blue Ribbon School Profiles

Each year, the Blue Ribbon Schools Program visits selected schools to capture their stories. Produced as audio slideshows, these school profiles feature the voices and images of principals, teachers, students, parents, and community members as they offer first-person perspectives on what makes their schools strive for—and achieve—excellence.

The six schools profiled among the 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools are high-poverty, high-achieving schools that demonstrate the kind of excellence any school in America can achieve, with the right combination of people, will, and effort.

This site contains a collection of narrated slide shows illustrating the four consistent school improvement themes among the Blue Ribbon Schools. To view the slide shows arranged by theme, click on the theme images below. To view these shows arranged by school, click on the school images below.

View narrated slide shows arranged by school improvement theme:

School Culture		High Expectations		Educating the Whole Child		Leadership and Teamwork

 

View narrated slide shows arranged by school:

Alice Coachman Elementary School Albany, GA		St. Mary's Academic Charter School Beeville, TX		Sherwood Academic Magnet Middle School Baton Rouge, LA
Hopewell Elementary School Taunton, MA		John Wash Elementary School Fresno, CA		Pompano Beach High School Pompano Beach, FL