School & Main Institute

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School Climate and Social-Emotional Supports

Overview

SMI is based in Boston and has clients and projects in Massachusetts and around the country. We design and manage a variety of multidimensional, multi-year technical assistance efforts for school districts, foundations, state and federal agencies and other organizations.

 We have worked with the Mass. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on a range of projects since 2008 – often focused on helping schools and districts build their capacity to address the needs of all of the students they serve; for example, by strengthening school culture, building more effective systems and partnerships to support struggling students, developing leadership strategies and structures, rethinking schedules, refining student support systems and family engagement strategies, etc.).

 SMI is also the state appointed receiver for the Parker Elementary School in New Bedford and has worked with other districts to deepen the “bench” of district and school leaders who can design and sustain effective school turnaround/improvement efforts.

Contact

Gregg Weltz, Executive Director
Phone: (920) 917-8965
Email: gweltz@schoolandmain.org

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

National Institute for School Leadership (NISL)

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• NISL Institutes

• NISL District System Design Partnership

• NISL School Leadership Coaching Program

• NISL Superintendent Academy

• Executive Development Program (EDP)

Approved Priority Partner Categories

Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration

Overview

The National Institute for School Leadership (NISL)’s mission is to provide district and school leaders with the tools, resources, and knowledge needed to create systems in which all schools are as effective as schools in the highest performing countries. NISL offers a suite of leadership institutes, including intensive leadership training focused on critical issues.

Contact

Phone:  913-909-1997
Email:  mhandley@nisl.org

Mass Insight Education & Research

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• Leadership

• District Organizing

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Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration; Organizing the District for Successful Turnaround

Overview

Mass Insight Education & Research’s mission is to provide the leadership in closing the achievement and opportunity gaps for under-served students by focusing on system transformation and student academic success.

Contact

Phone:  216-280-2454
Email:  awolfe@massinsight.org

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

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• 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

School Works Assessing Quality, Building Capacity

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• Leadership, Shared Responsibility and Collaboration

• Organization the District for Successful Turnaround

Overview

SchoolWorks (www.schoolworks.org) is an education consulting company that provides a broad continuum of services to educators, administrators, institutions and governing bodies in support of K-12 education improvement and reform. With a foundation in assessment services, SchoolWorks has reviewed and documented the work of thousands of schools and districts since the company’s inception in 1998, developing and refining a proprietary set of research-based criteria (SchoolWorks Quality Criteria) and an evidence-based classroom observation tool (SchoolWorks Classroom Visit Tool) that serve as the framework for this work. With decades of insight into best practices across domains, SchoolWorks provides authoritative school improvement support by helping schools and districts identify their strengths and weaknesses, develop and execute meaningful and achievable action plans, and monitor ongoing progress. The company’s consulting services include 1) designing accountability frameworks; 2) school/district assessment; 3) leadership supports; 4) instructional supports; and 5) lead partner services for turnaround schools and districts.

Contact

Kim Wechtenhiser, President
Phone: 978-921-1674
Email: kwechtenhiser@schoolworks.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