Focused Schools

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Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration, High Quality Core Instruction, Organizing the District for Successful Turnaround

Overview

The Focused Schools team was founded and is comprised of leaders with years of school and district experience as turnaround leaders. Using a common framework, we provide support through professional development, coaching, and technical assistance to help districts and schools improve teaching and learning opportunities for every student, no exception. From the onset of our partnerships, we begin to work ourselves out of a job by helping to build systems and structures that guarantee results.

Contact

Kerry Purcell, Senior Executive
Phone: (844) 957-2466
Email: kpurcell@focusedschools.com

Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative at Lesley University

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Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration; High Quality Core Instruction

Overview

The Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative (CRRLC) at Lesley University trains school-based literacy coaches, teachers, principals, interventionists, and school leadership teams in a comprehensive literacy model that meets the diverse needs of all learners in grades Pk-8.  The model's instructional framework maximizes time on learning by providing a structure for whole group, small group, and individual teaching in reading, writing, and word study.  Professional learning offerings include seminars and courses in:  effective literacy leadership for coaches, principals, and leadership teams; instructional workshops for teachers in guided reading, readers' workshop, writers' workshop, and phonics; and training for interventionists in Leveled Literacy Intervention.  Other professional learning focused on assessment and curriculum planning using the Fountas and Pinnell Literacy Continuum and Benchmark Assessment System.

Contact

Phone:  617-349-8424
Email:  literacy@lesley.edu

TNTP Reimagine Teaching

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• Leadership

• High Quality Core Instruction

• Human Capital

• Organizing the District for Turnaround

Approved Priority Partner Categories

• Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration

• High Quality Core Instruction

• Strategic Use of Human Capital

• Organization the District for Successful Turnaround

Overview

Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration - TNTP works with school leaders and their teams by developing customized support strategies that best fit each school and leader. Our work will center around three core components:

1. Diagnostics, Prioritization & Planning. We conduct individual diagnostics with all partner schools to support school leaders to set a vision and goals with clear and measurable benchmarks throughout the year. Coaches help principals examine the best entry point for school improvement and begin to cultivate a clear set of plans for the first 90 days of school.

2. Professional Development. Both during the summer and throughout the school year, principals attend PD sessions with other schools as well as differentiated PD sessions based on their individualized development goals. This includes professional learning with other leaders engaged in school turnaround efforts, providing a cohort of peers who will support one another’s learning.

3. Leadership Coaching. On-site leadership coaching will focus on the development of effective management practices and prepare leaders to accurately assess teacher performance so they are better able to be strong developers of talent. TNTP builds the principal’s distributive leadership skills and supports leaders in upholding clear, consistent

High Quality Core Instruction - At TNTP, we believe all students deserve excellent teachers and our work focuses on ensuring great teaching is happening across all classrooms in a school. This means students are:

• Fully engaged in the work of the lesson

• Working on appropriately rigorous content that prepares them for success in college and the workforce

• Taking ownership of their learning

• Demonstrating understanding

Strategic Use of Human Capital - TNTP works with schools and districts to ensure access to talented educators and school leaders by focusing on four key strategies:

1. Recruitment and Candidate Cultivation. Increase school systems’ capacity to reach ambitious targets and allocate resources to the right recruitment practices.

2. A Smart Selection Model. Efficiently screen candidates so principals spend time interviewing only those most likely to be a fit for the school’s unique culture.

3. Strategic Staffing Support. Give leaders a competitive edge by providing the capacity that positions their teams to fill vacancies earlier.

4. Effective Retention Practices. Provide actionable school-level and system-wide data that leaders can use to set clear next steps shown to increase the retention of top-performers and yield improved student outcomes.

Organizing the District for Successful Turnaround - TNTP brings experience in aligning three critical components to ensure our district and school partners achieve transformative results.

1. Put human capital front and center. District transformation efforts demand leadership talent with incredibly strong instructional vision and the ability to execute on that vision. We help develop robust human capital strategies that ensure schools have strong leaders, and effective teachers with deep content expertise.

2. Bring coherence to the instructional vision and strategies. Turnaround schools demand a coherent strategy centered on an academic vision that is well-integrated, rigorous, aligned and sequenced to meet the needs of the students who will be served by the school.

3. Put the people, time, money and program for success in place. For turnaround efforts to be successful, the policy, regulatory, collective bargaining and fiscal contexts must be addressed to strengthen autonomy and provide clearer accountability.

Contact

Dr. Rasheed Meadows, Vice President
Email: Rasheed.Meadows@tntp.org

New Classrooms Innovation Partners for Learning

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High Quality Core Instruction

Overview

New Classrooms Innovation Partners (“New Classrooms”) is committed to reimagining the traditional classroom to help each student reach his or her full potential. New Classrooms designs personalized instructional models that re-imagine the use of time, talent, technology, and physical space in order to support personalized learning. We then support the implementation of these models within existing schools while sharing in the accountability for student outcomes.

Contact

Joel Rose, CEO & Co-Founder
Phone: 212-920-6130
Email: info@newclassrooms.org

HILL for Literacy

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1. Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration

2. High Quality Core Instruction

3. Academic Supports and Interventions for Students

4. Organization the District for Successful Turnaround

Overview

The HILL partners with districts to assess literacy needs, implement research-based training, and deliver data-driven instruction so all students can achieve the literacy skills needed to be successful. We customize our training and consultation to meet the unique needs of the school district centered around the following goals:

1. Implement leadership routines and systems necessary to institute evidence-based literacy practices within a tiered instructional model and build capacity to ensure sustainability of the school-wide literacy model.

2. Implement research-based instructional programs and resources within a multi-tiered system of support framework.

3. Create a consistent knowledgebase and common language among teachers that is based on the overview of reading, current reading research, and evidence-based practices in reading instruction.

4. Establish a framework and process for using scientifically-based dynamic assessments to make instructional decisions at the district, school, grade, classroom, and individual student levels.

Contact

Dr. Darci Burns
Phone: 888-860-0190 x1
Email: info@hillforliteracy.org

Generation Ready Partnering for School Success

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• Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration

• High Quality Core Instruction

Overview

Working alongside teachers and principals, Generation Ready educational consultants provide customized professional development to help educators deliver student instruction that meets the evolving needs of today’s classroom. Our education consultants have at least 10 years of experience serving as superintendents, coaches, principals and teachers. We have an in-depth understanding of how to bring about effective change in schools in literacy, mathematics, leadership, cultural proficiency, school improvement and special education. Our results-driven professional development is made more effective by combining job-embedded consulting expertise with an evidence-based approach that is built upon the research of Dr. Richard Elmore, John Hattie, Robert Marzano, Charlotte Danielson, as well as Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers.

Contact

Gianna Cassetta, Director, Literacy Services
Phone: 646-387-6402
Email: gianna.cassetta@generationready.com

Achievement Network

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High Quality Core Instruction

Overview

As we know, there is no "quick fix" that can be applied to improving student outcomes.  Instead, we've found student achievement is the result of school-wide improvement and system-wide coherence.  Our support helps schools establish effective systems and structures that lead to stronger instruction.  We help system leaders, school-based instructional leadership teams and teachers all study the new standards.  Everyone needs to learn together what we're demanding of our students if we're going to create the system level coherence and understanding we need.  Instructional leadership teams can then develop teachers to deliver lessons based on those standards, assess how well students have mastered the material taught, and use data to identify how best to address the remaining gaps in student learning.  Establishing these practices in every school is a critical level to help us achieve the promise of the Common Core because it bolsters teachers' skill and judgment as educators, rather than simply training them to follow a new curriculum. 

To help schools achieve these goals, ANet provides our partner schools with a unique, integrated combination of tools and training:

• Tools: Interim assessments designed FOR learning, not OF learning; Online instructional platform

• Training: Job-embedded, school-based coaching; Group professional development and online learning; System-level alignment and coherence

Contact

Phone:  617-699-4492
Email:   Dorie Withey dwithey@achievementnetwork.org