The Collective
National Urban Alliance - Indianapolis Public Schools
Multi-Year Program Model
- Year 1: Building Awareness
- Year 2: Strategy Implementation
- Year 3: Student Achievement
- Monitoring/Assessment
- Technology (Website)
- Year 4: Institutional Change
Year 1 Participants Focus
- Introduction of strategies that tie in with the IPS framework and Pacing Guide.
- Involvement of Leadership Academy teachers in the delivery of sessions.
- An intensive and condensed version of previous Year 1 & 2 goals pertaining to building awareness and strategy implementation.
Year 2 & 3 Participants Focus
- Follows the NUA multi-year professional development model of year 3 as focusing on student achievement.
- Focus on lowest achieving students in each participating teachers' classroom.
- Before the first boundary session:
- Teachers identify students below grade level based on criteria.
- Students will be called The Collective.
During Boundary Sessions:
- Teachers will develop an accelerated and intensified plan for helping students in the "collective".
- The goal is for each student to show at least 2 years growth for each full year of instruction.
- NUA strategies that have been presented during previous years will be utilized.
- Teachers will bring student work to the boundary sessions to show progress.
- The students' work will be analyzed and successful strategies will be shared.
- Small groups of teachers will problem solve and develop alternative plans to reach students not showing progress.
- Besides the review of the NUA strategies and ensuring the provision of a balanced reading program, classroom organization and management will also be a focus of the boundary sessions.
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