Relay Graduate School of Education
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For a project to redesign and build faculty capacity for Relay's ELA, math, and science content courses for teaching
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
There is a growing demand for high-quality teacher preparation in communities across the country. Currently, traditional preparation programs emphasize credit hours, course completion, and design of lessons and curriculum over practical experience and student achievement, and typically lack instruction on how to teach to specific content areas. In 2018, Relay Graduate School of Education began to redesign their Master of Arts in Teaching program to challenge this traditional model. They are integrating content-specific coursework that is aligned to high-quality instructional materials with general pedagogy coursework and are supporting student participants to learn how to analyze and select high-quality instructional materials. After redesigning their full scope and sequence across all content areas, Relay is now poised for the next phase of their curriculum redesign. Through this grant, Relay will redesign course materials for English language arts, math and science content courses for teaching and create a faculty development plan for implementation.
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For a project to redesign and pilot Relay’s Master of Arts in Teaching program with disciplinary content and pedagogy courses integrated with high-quality K-12 instructional materials
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
21 months
Description
The Relay Graduate School of Education, a national accredited institution of higher education that offers teacher preparation programs for every grade level and nearly every subject area, is prepared to redesign its Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program so novice teachers can learn to use high-quality standards-aligned instructional materials. This grant will support Relay to integrate the use of high-quality K-12 instructional materials reviewed by EdReports, beginning with their online MAT elementary and secondary math courses; develop program faculty who teach these courses; pilot redesigned math courses; collect data to assess the impact of redesigned courses, and submit materials to obtain regulatory program approval.
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For a project to continue support for the Leverage Leadership Institute
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Relay Graduate School of Education supports leaders across the different stages of the leadership pipeline, including aspiring principals, sitting principals and principal supervisors. Relay’s Leverage Leadership Institute (LLI) is focused on leaders “at the top” – those who have already achieved strong results on student learning. With prior Corporation support, Relay has completed three and a half years of the LLI program. This renewal grant supports the next phase of LLI, including a fourth cohort of LLI fellows, and will enable Relay to design and implement strategic plans for alumni engagement and mobilization, codify alumni case studies to drive continuous improvement, show diversity and strategies for success in different contexts, and develop the long-term programmatic and economic model for the LLI to sustain itself. This program is unique in its focus, and, as its name suggests, poised to leverage its work by scaling effective leadership to new contexts and geographies, by both improving leader practice and training those leaders to train others.
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For the Leverage Leadership Institute program
Date
Dec. 10, 2015
Duration
18 months
Description
To prepare all students to be active in a democratic society and the global economy, schools and school systems require leaders capable of implementing and strengthening instructional and cultural practices that support teachers and advance student learning. However, recent scholarship indicates that traditional teacher and school leader preparation programs, which emphasize credit hours and course completion over practical experience and student achievement, are not adequately preparing candidates for the challenges of teaching in the real world. Furthermore, there are very few programs that support school and systems leaders in their work, leading to and exacerbating challenges recruiting and retaining top talent. Launched in 2014 with support of the Corporation, Relay’s Leverage Leadership Institute (LLI) is designed to address this acute need for more highly effective school leaders across the country. The year-long fellowship builds the skills of twenty to twenty-five exceptional district and charter school leaders per year, equipping them to train and coach others to achieve the same results in their schools and districts. By disseminating best practices in school leadership, LLI aims to directly impact K-12 student achievement in schools and districts across the country. Having entered the second year of the program, Relay requests support to extend, refine, and codify the program model, including training and certification; recruitment and selection; and learning and evaluation.
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For innovations in principal training
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
15 months
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For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
12 months
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For the development and implementation of an innovative model of teacher preparation for middle and high school math and science
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
24 months