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Collaborative Leadership and Professional Learning Communities
A Design
Team made up of administrators, faculty/ staff, students, parents and
community members is created in each school. The BRII or BRIM Coach
works collaboratively with the principal and design team in overseeing
the change process and guides the work assisting with:
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Support for Design
Teams
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Data Team Training
and Support
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Team Leader
Support
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Providing
Scheduling Options
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Conducting
Collegial Circles
Personalizing the School
Environment
Research
indicates that students who are known well and who feel cared about are
more academically successful and tend to graduate from school in higher
numbers, with increased capability of entering postsecondary education
or the world of work. Schools need to be places where no students fall
through the cracks, and each student is known well by at least one adult
in the building. The BRII and BRIM Processes help schools create
structures for personalizing the school environment, such as:
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Creating Grade
Teams and Smaller Learning Communities
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Student Advisories
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Personalized Plans
for Progress/ Student-Led Conferences
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Student Leadership
Teams and Activities
Making Learning Personal through Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
At the
core of any positive change in schools is an engaging curriculum for
students that is meaningful, is delivered with regard to students'
multiple learning styles and cultures, and includes a variety of
assessment opportunities for students to demonstrate proficiency. The
Breaking Ranks Process provides schools with professional development
and support to institute structures that allow for such innovation,
including:
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Developing
Cross-Content Projects
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Employing Multiple
Instructional Strategies to Address Cultural and Learning Style
Differences
Development of Multiple Assessment Strategies
Breaking Ranks Process Activities
CSSR provides a number of services
as part of
the Breaking Ranks
II™
and Breaking Ranks in the Middle™ processes. All or some of
the activities can be part of the uniquely designed technical assistance
plan for each individual school.
Available activities
School Change
Coaching
Data Team Coaching
Values and Strategy
Alignment
Student
Shadowing and Focus Groups
Building Professional Communities Through Teaming
Personalizing Teaching for Student Learning
Successful
Freshman Transition Teams
Support for
Freshman Academy Teams
Changing Roles and Responsibility Workshop Series
Summer
Training for Teacher Teams
Assistance with Scheduling
Critical Friends
Training
Summer Retreat
Planning for
Future Grant Funding
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