National Institute for Urban School Improvement

1. National Institute for Urban School Improvement Leadership for Learning DCPS Symposium

2. Strategies for Getting to Scale • District Effort • Assets Mapping • Marketing Campaign • District Feedback & Networking • Program Evaluation • School Effort • Partner Schools • Leadership Academies • Design Teams • Professional Effort • Partner Schools • Practice-based Inquiry Work groups • Differentiated Instruction • Thematic Instruction

3. Purpose • The National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI) develops powerful networks of urban local education agencies and schools that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach for inclusive practices • NIUSI goals include: • a focus on Continuous Improvement • continued Research and Development • coherent and culturally responsive Professional Development • National Networking and Dissemination

4. Hacienda LaPuente (CA) Clark County (Las Vegas, NV) Washington D.C. Denver Miami-Dade County Houston Chicago Cincinnati NYC Region 10

5. NIUSI Goals • Increase knowledge and understanding through evaluation of our current practice, change efforts and impact. • Synthesize and expand research-based practices for inclusive urban schools, students and families.

6. NIUSI Goals • Leverage continued improvement of Inclusive Practices in Urban Schools through regional technical assistance plans, collaborative work with Leading Urban Districts focusing on Research Validated Practices in early intervention, reading, behavior, and Universal Design. • Engage national discourse in local, professional practice, and policy communities on improving educational outcomes for urban students.

7. What are Inclusive Urban Systems? Systems in which educators enlarge their perspectives to encompass ALL children by integrating curricular and teaching reforms, collaborating with ALL support personnel, aligning ALL policies, and assessing learning of ALL students in order to ensure that ALL students have access to opportunities to learn and achieve.

8. Systemic Change Framework • A common framework for understanding change work grounded in the system that we seek to change: public education • School systems are products of the communities and the families that live there • Family and community involvement are embedded activity at the district, school and professional levels

12. Spotlights Events Publications Library Professional Development Portals Campuses Data Maps A Tour of the Website www.inclusiveschools.org

13. Systemic Change Using Data Inclusive Schools Universal Designs for Learning Co-teaching Assessing Student Progress Managing Inclusive Classrooms Literacy for Urban Schools Using technology to support Learning Impact of Urban Culture on Teachers and Students Building Capacity Through Family Voice and Participation Modules

14. Events • 3 National Inclusive Schools Weeks • 2 Teleconferences • 2 Advisory Board Meetings • 2 NIUSI Synergy Site Meetings • 5 NIUSI Site Liaison Professional Development Meetings • 2 NIUSI Site Liaison Retreats • 30 NIUSI Meetings in Synergy Sites • 6 Trainer of Trainer Meetings • TASH Leadership Academy • 2 Urban Strands at TASH • 3 LRE Teleconferences

15. Activities • Networked and Collaborated with • Technical Assistance Centers • Federal/Regional Resource Center Network • Regional Educational Laboratories • Equity Assistance Centers • Urban Special Education Collaborative • Designed and developed a technology infrastructure • Coordinated activities for the OSEP Technical Assistance LRE Part B Community of Practice • TASH Leadership Academy

16. DCPS • Coaching • Professional Development • 10 schools working on inclusive education