Aspire

Facilitated by:

Patti Smith, Senior Director

Rebecca Privett, Central Region Director

Christel Kaufman, Western Region Director

Agenda

8:00 - 8:15 Opening Remarks 8:15 - 9:15 Cohort I Team Sharing

Time 9:15 - 9:45 Teams Report Out 9:45 - 10:00 Break10:00 - 10:15 3 NAF Pillars10:15 - 11:00 Team Collaboration

Time11:00 - 12:00 Collaboration Space

David Cole

Team Performance

Model

CREATING SUSTAINING

Why are we here?

ASPIRE COHORT

Identified as “good” academies in the network

Committed toFurther academy

development in ’07-’08 5-year study with MDRC

beginning in Fall ‘08Received PD and TA during

’07-’08

Design Studio Themes

Business Partnerships

Personalization

Interdisciplinary PBL

Design Studio Sharing Time

Actions taken Challenges that arose New collaborations at your site Interesting opportunities to work

with colleagues, students, or advisory board members

Design Studio Videos

Interdisciplinary PBLApex High School

Business PartnershipsBrook Farm Academy

PersonalizationA.J. Moore Academy

Brook Farm Video

A. J. Moore Video

Video Apex

Partnership – A Case Study

NAF’s Six Core Principles

NAF Pillars

Curriculum

Advisory Boards

Paid Internships

Participantsshare

responses

Participantsshare

responses

Collaboration

Network

Personalized learning environments Academic engagement of all students Integrated curriculum & supports

Engaged community and youth Empowered educators Accountable leaders

• Engaged community and youth• Academic engagement of all students•Personalized learning environments

New Cohort Collaboration Time

Curriculum CohortImplementation of the NAF

curriculum and interdisciplinary PBL

Advisory Board CohortActive engagement of business

partners Internship Cohort

100% placement of eligible academy students

New Cohorts

• How do you use the information from the design studios and the videos to move forward on this pillar at our school?

• Review the issues that arose in your NAF/MDRC site visit, and come up with 3 target issues you would like to see addressed in the collaboration network space.

By David Cole

Next Steps

• Working together in 2008 through the collaboration network

• Meeting with the cohort at the Leadership Summit

• Proposed Design Studios – Galileo– Carencro– Academy of Finance and

Enterprise

2008-2009 Outcomes

•Sharing of effective practices

•Building expertise within cohorts

•Creating on-line collaboration leadership team

•Participating in on-line collaboration space

•Continuing Design Studios

•Measuring and Evaluating