During Phase I of the ISSG program, our grantees were asked to develop sharable resources for other systems pursuing systemic changes.
| Grantee | Links | Description |
| Aldine | Calendar tool | Aldine Public Schools offers an extended school day at several school campuses, called Additional Day School Year (ADSY) campuses. This calendar tool allows the district and schools to use a template to plan out the number of school days and accelerated days throughout the school year. The template is a resource that can be used for districts to build out the school calendar. The letter “R” counts as a regular school day, the letter “A” counts as an accelerated day, letter “H” as a holiday, and letters “PD” as a professional learning day. |
| Building 21 | IC.2 Foster a Shared Vision and Innovative Mindset | Building 21 is partnering with nine high schools in nine districts to co-create and test critical components of competency-based learning: implementation tools, a coaching model, and a finalized competency tracking platform. As more schools and districts transition to personalized and competency-based learning, there is a need to better understand what that transformation journey is and how to get there. To support these transitions, Building 21 is in the process of creating an implementation toolkit which includes implementation competencies and continua aligned to essential shifts in culture, mindsets, instruction, structures, and systems. These tools outline the transformation process and support organizations and leaders in determining where they currently are, where they are going, and what it is going to take to get there. Here is an example of one competency that has been developed as part of this toolkit: Foster a Shared Vision and Innovative Mindset. |
| Bullitt | Bullitt County Public Schools Instructional Vision Bullitt County Public Schools Profile Progression Bullitt County Public Schools Aspirational Rubric Inkwire & Kaleidoscope Planning Tool |
Bullitt County is building a competency-based assessment system that reframes assessment as a “learning journey” and not a final destination: evolving instructional practices and teacher use of assessments, providing students opportunities to demonstrate mastery in new ways, and shifting how the community sees the purpose and metrics of success of schooling. The Bullitt County Public Schools Instructional Vision is a tool that provides students, teachers, administrators, parents/families, and the community at large with a blueprint of the student experience. This is a vision that provides multiple entry points for all educators and a clear path of the expectation of what the student learning experience will encompass as they move forward with implementing authentic learning experiences. The Bullitt County Public Schools Profile Progression is an instructional support tool to help teachers begin to shift from traditional to transitional pedagogy in the pursuit of implementing their Graduate Profile competencies connected to academic standards in authentic learning experiences. This tool is used to provide teachers a continuum to move towards a learner driven classroom co-created with the facilitator as teacher. The Bullitt County Public Schools Aspirational Rubric is a guiding tool that provides strategic thinking and planning across the organization that embeds the Graduate Profile as the DNA of all systems from the classroom to the board room. Inkwire provides Bullitt County Public Schools with a platform where teachers can create inquiry-based learning experiences that combine academics and our Graduate Profile competencies. In addition, evidence of learning is collected by students in the platform to demonstrate their mastery of standards and competencies. The tool also connects teachers and learners to an ecosystem that promotes learning for and with the community at large. |
| Cajon | Portrait of a Graduate Input Form Movie on the Lawn Flyer ISSG Artifact Slides |
Cajon Valley is launching a new, competency-based, student data and assessment system that measures success through the lens of happy, healthy, and gainfully employed students. The new data system will anchor in the district’s Portrait of a Graduate. The most important component of the Cajon Valley journey has been grounding in community voice, as evidenced in the surveys going out to families and flier from the Movie on the Lawn night that brought in families to participate in focus groups. These events have led to Cajon Valley planning a family outreach event at every school site to receive input from a broad array of families. Over 90 staff members have joined CV Ambassadors and are codesigning the Portrait of a Graduate while testing and influencing the technology needed to honor the skills students are developing through monthly meetings and homework. |
| Da Vinci | PL-Roadmap | Da Vinci Schools will launch Project Leo, an open-source, project-based learning platform that leverages ChatGPT to generate project ideas aligned with students’ interests. Their team is working to find creative ways to innovate so that the organization isn’t stressed with expensive software development. They are close to building one of the top teams in the education space to build an AI-driven classroom operating system of the future. This is their roadmap format, which has been extremely helpful in keeping their focus on the key experiences of all their stakeholders throughout the software development process and could be useful for any multi-year project. |
| Ednovate | WCRC Sample Printouts | Ednovate is redesigning the high school report card, called the Whole Child Report Card. This is a sample printout of the Whole Child Report Card Dashboard that students can view digitally in real time, and that is printed out for quarterly teacher/parent meetings. The Dashboard is an advanced tool providing students with a comprehensive overview of their Annual College Readiness Indicators (ACRIs). This dashboard delivers real-time data, aiding students in recognizing their strengths and areas for growth, with ACRI categories including college rigor, critical thinking, presence, mastery, self-regulation, and purpose. |
| McComb | RevX Instructional Guide & Blueprint DEEDS Pacing Calendar |
McComb Public schools has developed the DEEDS (Discover, Examine, Engineer, Do, and Share) instructional framework to address and reverse student disengagement. RevX, equips young learners with the confidence and skills needed to become influential leaders and change-makers, integrating academic, social-emotional, and professional development to prepare them for a brighter future. This instructional guide provides educators with a comprehensive framework for implementing the RevX model, a transformative educational approach designed to empower students through social justice-focused, real-world learning experiences, enhancing their academic, social-emotional, and professional skills to effect positive change in their communities In addition to this, the pacing calendar is a teacher-facing tool designed to enhance high school students’ speaking, listening, language, and writing skills. It focuses on engaging students in collaborative discussions on complex topics, utilizing acquired vocabulary effectively, and writing informative texts. This comprehensive tool includes a Learner Notebook for the Discover Phase and Examine phases, pre-assessment activities, and an editing performance task, culminating in a wrap-up session and experience survey to gauge learning outcomes. |
| Mesquite | Vision Slide Deck AYO Demo Site |
Mesquite Independent School District plans to scale AYO, a data-driven, interactive learning platform that leverages artificial intelligence to generate a comprehensive profile of students’ passions, aptitudes, and growth. Through AYO’s artificial intelligence processing, millions of opportunities are suggested to students, such as new interests, extracurriculars, courses, endorsements, leadership skills, family activities and more, all based on the child’s unique passions and aptitudes. This deck communicates Mesquite ISD’s vision for creating an innovative system for teaching and learning. AYO is a dynamic web and mobile platform that leverages artificial intelligence to maximize the unique potential of students based on their passions and aptitudes. AYO meets challenges of today with solutions rooted within flexible learning models, tailored instruction, students’ self-regulation of emotions, leadership development pathways, extracurriculars, community partnerships and more. The demo site demonstrates how AYO gathers information and aggregates and analyzes data to create a student profile. |
| St Paul | Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain Ready for Rigor Framework | Saint Paul Public School is collaborating with culturally and linguistically affirming schools to identify the essential elements of a school’s operation that support positive identity development and strong academic outcomes. Their tool, taken directly from Zaretta Hammond’s Ready for Rigor framework, is used to help schools consider what constitutes culturally responsive practices so that they can be scaled district-wide. |
| St Vrain | Quality Online Content for Distance Learning | St Vrain Valley Public Schools is creating a new virtual system (AGILE) that allows high school students to take courses at any high school online, taught syncronously by St. Vrain teachers. This document is a landing page for teachers to learn and practice best online practices. The Department of Learning Services developed the document (instructional coaches, curriculum coordinators, and identified blending teachers). This is an extension of what they learned through COVID and blended learning. These are elements that teachers could consider when creating a robust online environment for their students. |
| Gwinnett | AI Learning Framework K-12 AI Learning Continuum |
Gwinnett County is integrating a new learning focus, “AI Future Readiness,” that ensures students are prepared for a technologically advanced future. Future readiness learning connected to a new career pathway in artificial intelligence will be built into Gwinnett’s existing classes and across all subject areas. Seckinger High School, an AI-themed cluster, was the first school to pilot the curriculum and is expected to serve 6,000 students during the 2023-24 school year. Gwinnett will also continue its second year of an AI career technical education pathway and conduct new professional learning pilots for content leaders. This initiative will eventually scale system-wide to all GCPS students, making it one of, if not the largest, AI CTE pathways in the nation. |
