ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools develops activities in two major program areas:
- Recruitment and Retention Programs – collaborative efforts to identify and recruit diverse talent to teaching in high-need schools, as well as networking, mentoring and professional development programs that support new teachers during their first critical years in the classroom. These programs range from Diversity at the Blackboard, a statewide recruitment effort to attract more men and minorities to teaching, to ACI's Teacher Induction Academy, a four-year professional development program specifically targeted to new teachers in high-need schools, and Principals Forum where school administrators network with other school leaders in efforts to improve their practice and problem solve school improvement initiatives.
- Curriculum Transformation Initiatives – major initiatives based on eight member campuses, which seek to redesign teacher education curricula for the special challenges of high-need schools, with funding from ACI's USDOE Teacher Quality Enhancement grant.
