MASTER PLAN. Innovative Programs

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Office of Talent Development, Professional Development Support December 12, 2014

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MASTER PLAN

Innovative Programs

OWNER OF PLAN: Leona Miracola

CONTACT: Lillian Cruz-Collins

DEPARTMENT: Innovative Programs

COURSE GROUP: 10454670

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Program Description:

Plan, deliver, and evaluate thematic instructional strategies impacting student

achievement and professional development for teachers at magnet schools.

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Innovative Program Theme Integration

1.1 DESIRED OUTCOME: Innovative Program teachers/coordinators will be able to identify

and integrate innovative teaching strategies to maintain and continuously improve

programmatic theme integration and student achievement.

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Customize and/or personalize (facilitate) innovative curriculum, projects, activities for collegial sharing based on what the national MSA merit award winning schools have proven were effectively implemented in their innovative programs.

Integrate (facilitate) instructional innovative strategies in the specific theme innovative program across the curriculum, projects, and activities in the class, school-wide and/or community.

Identify best practices and innovative strategies incorporated in theme-related innovative programs. Identify non-traditional instructional strategies to integrate in the innovative program classroom. Evaluate the effectiveness of theme integration projects and activities implemented in the classes, school-wide, as well as in the community.

Collaborate with all colleagues by sharing expertise in the use of the specific theme integration (curriculum, projects, activities) in PLC’s and other form of collaborative opportunities.

Collaborate with grade level team colleagues in the use of theme specific instructional innovative strategies.

Demonstrate (facilitate) integration of innovative program theme in the classroom.

Implement (facilitate) the innovative instructional theme-related strategies (projects & activities) across the curriculum in the classes, school-wide, and in the community.

Implement (facilitate) the innovative instructional theme-related strategies (projects & activities) in the classroom and school-wide.

Demonstrate integration of innovative program theme in the classroom and school-wide

Facilitate professional learning opportunities for peer development across the curriculum.

Facilitate professional learning opportunities for peer development in the innovative program classrooms. Model the use of

innovative strategies (theme specific) to increase student achievement and maintain continuous program improvement in the innovative program environment.

Model the use of innovative strategies (theme specific) in the classes, school-wide, and in the community.

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Innovative Program Marketing and Recruitment

1.2 Desired Outcome: Teachers/Coordinators will be able to incorporate effective

school-wide and community marketing and recruitment strategies to maintain and

attract a diverse student population to our innovative programs.

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Customize (facilitate) effective marketing and recruitment as

evidenced in the MSA merit award winning innovative programs.

Develop marketing and recruitment collaterals as proven effective by national innovative programs.

Adapt marketing and

recruitment collaterals. Identify marketing and recruitment strategies.

Incorporate effective marketing and recruitment strategies as evidenced in the school’s website, marquee, personalized collaterals, District’s website, and in the community and other form of marketing and recruitment.

Incorporate effective marketing and recruitment strategies as evidenced in the school and District’s website, and/or community.

Use marketing and recruitment collaterals for school presentations and in the community.

Identify marketing and recruitment strategies.

Demonstrate a continuous plan of action to maintain and attract students to the specific innovative program, as evidenced in the innovative program planning tool created by the innovative program team comprised of administrators, theme teachers, and coordinator; and an increase of student enrollment data for the specific innovative program for (3) school years.

Demonstrate the capabilities of effective marketing and recruitment as evidenced in the increase of student enrollment data for their specific innovative program.

Demonstrate marketing and recruitment strategies for school presentations and in the community as evidenced in an innovative program PPT , video presentation, collaterals developed, and/or scheduled presentations with other veteran coordinators ; and via 1-on- 1 1-on-going

videoconference coordinator’s conferencing.

Collaborate with experts in the field of marketing and

recruitment to develop effective models and strategies to market and recruit.

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Financial Resources for Innovative Program Sustainability

1.3 DESIRED OUTCOME: Teachers/Coordinators will be able to identify innovative teaching

strategies which effectively develop the critical and creative learning/thinking skills in

students (student achievement) and incorporate in grant applications and other financial

resource application opportunities for program sustainability.

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Implement, study and research Innovative strategy (ies) in the classroom or identified learning environment, including collection of data to document effectiveness. Apply for a district foundation grant and/or other financial resource applications with a written application describing the innovation and implementation plan. Formally and informally share Innovative ideas/strategies/ curriculum in PLC’s and other school-based models, as well as at district-level.

Identify and implement selected Innovative strategy(ies) in the classroom or identified learning environment. Teachers/ Coordinators followed-through with applying for a district foundation grant. Informally share innovative ideas/strategies/ with colleagues and collaborative teams to study/research and implement in the classroom or learning environment. Discusses innovation informally with colleagues. Collaborative team or individual does not follow-through with applying for a grant or other financial resource applications.

Reads about innovations and attends events referencing innovations but does nothing to implement or promote innovations in classroom or learning environment.

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Data Collection Plan

Provide professional learning opportunities, which promote high quality instruction, continuous improvement and effective communication to positively impact participant practices and achievement/outcomes for students with disabilities.

What type of data needs to be collected?

What sources of data will help the

investigation?

Are the data available or do new data need to

be collected? Where are these data located? Who will be responsible for collecting these data? When will these data be collected? Annual Innovative Program Planning Tool for the specific school year each SY

Reflections Surveys

New data each SY; On-going modifications to the planning tool

(on-going collection of data) School-based Coordinators submit in the beginning of the school year

to IPO; filed in our database. IPO Supervisor & Coordinator for maintaining the data Initial beginning of SY On-going EOY

(End-of-the-Year) report tool Reflections _Surveys

New data collected and compared to the previous SY’s data

Same as above Same as _above End of the _SY

Enrollment & demographic data of

the OOB’s (out-of-boundary) students

enrolled in the innovative program

and whole school enrollment each year

Surveys District and School

enrollment & demographics of both District and

School

New & data from the last 2 SY’s

One Choice Database and ETS’ databases Same as above On-going & End of SY for various purposes School Performance Frameworks report Overall performance (summary of parent survey, CTACE classes and other specialized classes,

etc.)

New & compared to the previous SY’s data District Researchers retrieve from various databases District Researcher s & IPO Supervisor & Coordinator Between January and February