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Networks
and Initiatives
The
Center currently coordinates school reform networks, a principal
preparation program, and other initiatives. Within each
network and initiative, the Center provides coaching, technical
assistance, professional development, political advocacy, and networking
opportunities.
- Boston
Pilot Schools Network: These 20 schools, while members
of the Boston Public Schools, have freedom over budget, staffing, governance,
curriculum/assessment, and the school calendar. Models for the future
of urban public schools, the Pilot Schools are all small, personalized,
and democratic. The Center serves as the coordinating organization for
the Pilot Schools.
- Pilot School development: CCE supports the development of new Pilot Schools in Massachusetts, and of Commonwealth Pilot Schools, which have been established by the Massachusetts Department of Education as experiments in turning around schools that had not been making adequate progress.
- Los Angeles Pilot Schools: The Center supports the development of a new network of Pilot schools in the Belmont section of Los Angeles.
- Principal
Residency Network (PRN): The Principal Residency Network is an apprenticeship model of principal
preparation and certification, and is a regional site for the Rhode Island-based Big Picture Company’s national
Principal Residency Network. This principal preparation program is based
on the belief that the best method of preparing new, innovative school
leaders is to train them in schools that are engaged in real reform work.
Aspiring principals are placed in the Center’s Pilot, Coalition,
or Turning Points schools, are mentored by a Distinguished Principal for
a period of 15-18 months, and engage in the work of the school. Each candidate
has an individual learning plan to master a set of identified competencies
that prepares him/her for the principalship.
- Research
and Evaluation. This Program supports CCE's networks through the collection and analysis
of qualitative and quantitative information about our schools, coaches,
and students. The team collaborates with CCE staff and our school communities
to construct research questions and implement studies. The purposes of
the research are 1) to inform the ongoing whole school reform work at
CCE, and 2) to inform the public and larger educational community of the
lessons learned about creating change designed to improve conditions of
teaching and learning.
- National
Turning Points: The Center for Collaborative
Education serves as the National Turning Points Center, a New American
Schools-recognized reform model for creating high-performing middle
schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle
schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Foundation,
1989). Member schools engage in improving learning, teaching, and assessment,
building a professional collaborative culture, engaging in data-based
inquiry and decision making, and creating structures that support high
achievement and personal development.
- Coalition
of Essential Schools (CES) Network: The Center serves as the state-wide Regional
Center for those schools affiliated with the national Coalition of Essential
Schools reform initiative. Coalition schools organize learning, teaching,
and assessment around ten common principles, including students learning
to use their minds well, “less is more,” personalization,
student as worker, and exhibitions as demonstration of mastery.
Projects
and initiatives:
Disney
Learning Partnership. Each year,
Disney Learning Partnership selects 30 exemplary, innovative teachers
from across the country. The Center provides coaching, institutes, and
online study groups to help Disney teachers promote collaborative cultures
in their schools. |
