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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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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.
Member States and their Regional Comprehensive Centers
Cohort 1 (began 2009)
Alaska - Alaska Comprehensive Center
Arkansas- Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center
Idaho- Northwest Comprehensive Center
Illinois - Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center
Louisiana - Southeast Comprehensive Center
Michigan - Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center
Montana - Northwest Comprehensive Center
Oklahoma - Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center
Virginia - Appalachia Comprehensive Center
Cohort 2 (began 2010)
Bureau of Indian Education - Center on Innovation & Improvement
Nevada - Southwest Comprehensive Center
New Hampshire - New England Comprehensive Center
North Dakota - North Central Comprehensive Center
Vermont - New England Comprehensive Center
West Virginia - Appalachia Comprehensive Center
Wisconsin - Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center |
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