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| NEED. States need well-trained, highly skilled change agents and instructional experts working together to build capacity for improvement in districts and schools. |
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| CHALLENGE. States are reorganizing their systems of support, but organizational change without people trained for the work leads only to better organized frustration. |
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SOLUTION. The Center on Innovation & Improvement, through the Academy, will provide training, consultation, and support for state teams to develop skilled experts in three critical areas:
- System Leaders who administer the state system of support and coordinate its components (including the people who carry it out),
- Change Agents who understand not only effective operational practices, but also the dynamics of change in an educational setting, and
- Instructional Specialists who understand effective classroom instruction and how it can be cultivated in district and school systems to reach a critical mass of instructional excellence.
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States ramp up their systems of support by developing skilled experts in three critical areas:
leadership, change, and instruction. |
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Each state designates a team of five SEA staff to receive training and support through the year. The team includes a key administrator, two staff qualified to be change agents, and two instructional specialists. This team receives five days of training and planning in the summer of 2009, followed by a day each month of distance learning, monthly individual telephone conferences with Academy staff, and a year-end, three-day meeting and advanced training. One representative from each regional comprehensive center (with a participating state) participates in all events and is included in planning and follow-up support. The National Network of State School Improvement Leaders—facilitated by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII)— provides the organizational structure and communication channel to share the work of the pacesetting states with others, giving the Academy widespread and dramatic impact.
GOOD TO GREAT. By choosing to participate in the Academy, the state expresses its desire to strive for excellence, and devotes sufficient resources and attention to make a high-quality statewide system of support a reality. A focus of the program will be on leveraging existing resources, both personnel and funding, of the state systems so that they can more effectively (and cost-effectively) support improvement efforts of schools and districts in their states.
INFORMATIONAL BROCHURE. Academy of Pacesetting States ( PDF)
INFORMATIONAL PRESENTATION. Academy of Pacesetting States (.ppt) |
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