The Bronx Academic Response Team (A.R.T.) is designed to provide support from the Bronx Borough Citywide Office (BBCO) through an educative infusion of two unique yet correlated pathways that are iterative in nature.

1. We engage schools in rapid cycles of improvement to address specific problems of practice that often stem from inequities and disproportionality. This support is grounded in Improvement Science and is framed through the Instructional Leadership Framework (ILF), Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE), the Bronx Borough goals, and school-Specific CEP's.

2. We support schools to meet their specific needs and aim to create lasting sustainability through a culture where Improvement Science is embedded into the culture and lifeblood of the school community.

Our team consists of 10 specialists with vast professional experiences in education and we support schools in Districts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, HS Alcoff, and HS Cook.

If we collaborate with Bronx schools through the lens of advancing equity by addressing disproportionality using Improvement Science methodologies to purposefully and strategically disrupt and dismantle inequitable systems, then we will develop trusting relationships and empower leaders to work toward implementing the Chancellor’s Children’s Agenda while supporting the belief that all children should, can, and will learn by building capacity, shifting mindsets, improving practices, and impacting achievement. As a result of the work we do in schools, our team will strive to move beyond technical changes and towards the adaptive work needed to rebuild systems that are more equitable.

The Academic Response Team is committed to dismantling and disrupting inequitable school practices and advancing equity through strategic and purposeful interrupting of practices that either only serve one group of students and/or oppress another group of students. In collaboration with schools we analyze the underlying root causes and work with school administrators, teachers and staff to develop new practices and rebuild a more equitable school community.

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