Shooting for the Stars to Transform Schools Jaime Barraza - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Shooting for the Stars to Transform Schools Jaime Barraza Eliciting Big Ideas to Scale Strategic Advisor Innovation Karin Breo Executive Director of Development & Partnerships CMU Conference Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Presenters | Distinctive Schools Team Members

MISSION Distinctive Schools is an educational practice leader committed to social justice and the elevation of access within underserved communities, is to support each child in becoming an engaged and curious learner, a confident self-advocate, and a creative problem-solver by setting high expectations and nurturing a positive culture that honors diversity, collaboration, and optimism. VISION We innovate, trailblaze, and collaboratively lead a public education transformation that positively impacts the greater education community and ensures that each and every one of our Schools students thrives in college, career, and life. 4

Distinctive Schools | We Are Distinctive. #ALLin Personalized Learning Model Innovators & Trailblazers

WHO WE SERVE 6

LEARNING COMMUNITIES 7

What Makes Us Distinctive? ● ● drive ● collaboration commitment ● CULTURE removal of hard “yes” barriers work relationships transparency creativity

● The Distinctive Schools ● ● culture creates an ● ● environment for nimble ● design which is necessary ● ● to achieve our mission. Distinctive

Objectives Participants will engage in an exercise adapted from one used by Airbnb where schools imagine an ideal experience and identify what are the parts that are feasible to implement. Teams will identify problems of practice, craft insights and create design anchors to help their schools further. School teams can take this experience back to their schools to set the foundation for school transformation and to begin planning for new and exciting partnerships. Iteration

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What Adults Can Learn From Kids

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Where to go from here.

PARTNERS We prioritize collaboration with nationally recognized social justice and education leaders to support closing opportunity and access gaps in underserved communities. 24

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