Center for Better Schools
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
The National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE), founded by the Center for Better schools in 2010, is focused on overcoming the high-attrition rate of teachers and leaders at charter management organizations. They think that schools have not fully unleashed the capacity of their top-tier teachers to help support their peers and schools more broadly. Specifically, they are working on deepening the instructional practice of great teachers while simultaneously equipping them to help strengthen that of their colleagues from where they sit, as classroom teachers with no formal authority. This grant will help support the Teacher Fellow program and the delivery of program sessions modeled after the case method of instruction; learners are in self-directed cohorts and apply theory and research to third-party problems of practice, while leveraging their lived experience to inform their self-reflection, discussion, and learning. This grant will also continue to support the on-going work of NAATE, started by previous Corporation grant, to develop and implement a more financially sustainable program model that maintains a high level of quality and allows for more personalization of learning or participants.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
In a sector focused on the recruitment and development of new teachers, far too little is done to address the unique needs of experienced teachers. The Center for Better Schools, an organization founded in 2009 to address this gap, offers advanced learning opportunities needed to develop experienced and effective teachers through its National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE). NAATE’s case-method approach to adult learning offers a balance of teaching and learning concepts coupled with competencies in supporting and leading peers. With the support of this final grant, NAATE will build on its former work by cultivating and supporting existing and new school partners and creating new content to meet demand of personalized learning in new school designs.
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For a personalized learning study
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
21 months
Description
The National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) focuses on delivering high quality professional learning to top-tier teachers and their school leaders. NAATE is undertaking a study of personalized learning school models to better understand the implications for human capital. Specifically, NAATE seeks to understand what skills, mindsets, and practices must educators possess to successfully construct and implement these models, and subsequently, what new approaches for preparing and supporting teachers, school leaders, and other educators will be needed. These findings will inform future developments in NAATE’s model and be shared with the field. This grant supports this study.
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For field module execution, evaluation, strategic planning, and general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
15 months
Description
The National Academy for Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) is dedicated to the development and delivery of advanced programs of professional learning for experienced educators to develop, retain and deploy them in classrooms and school buildings in our nation’s high poverty schools. Through three programmatic areas, the Teacher Fellows, School Leaders Fellows, and Field Modules initiative, NAATE aims to improve outcomes for students in high-needs schools through a whole school approach to change that aims at deepening teacher instructional practice and leveraging teachers to support and lead their peers. Support for NAATE will focus on four areas: 1) Conducting an external evaluation to determine the impact of its programs on teacher and school leaders’ practices; 2) Conducting a strategic planning exercise to refine NAATE’s business model, value proposition, and ensure that it is positioned for long-term sustainability; 3) Testing of three Field Modules and identification of two additional modules to develop; and 4) General operating support.
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For development of additional professional development programs and general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
18 months
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For the School Leader Development Project
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
6 months
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For the development of a strategic growth plan for the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education
Date
Jun. 14, 2012
Duration
6 months