This is true everywhere, and it’s important to move beyond being discouraged. Often, samples of beautiful, complex student work itself, shown on a screen or downloaded, printed and examined in hard copy, can be a great start to changing the conversation. If people have compelling work in their own hands, the conversation changes. Also, many of the videos in the CSW can also be effective starting places for building interest in this effort. An important message point in these discussions is that it is a false choice that we need to pick either test scores or beautiful work. The schools that are highlighted in this collection are almost entirely high-achieving schools that surpass the test results of comparable schools, often by wide margins. A strong video linking this type of work to traditional measures of success can be found here , where an urban school with great test scores and 100% college acceptance for every graduating class focuses deeply on beautiful and important student work.