Teacher Leadership Fund September 25, 2019 2 Boston Public - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Teacher Leadership Fund September 25, 2019

2 Boston Public Schools Where are we going today? What is the Teacher By the Numbers Leadership Fund? Bright Spots Mission and Values Reflections of TLF Application & Selection Educators Process Teacher Leadership Fund

3 Teacher Leadership Fund Mission and Vision The Teacher Leadership Fund empowers educator-led innovation to address authentic The TLF aligns to School Committee goals: classroom, school, and district challenges in 2. Improved school quality: BPS will be a service of student learning and well-being. district of all high-performing schools, eliminating both the opportunity gap and the achievement gap. Our mission is to: 3. Strong district leadership/high-quality, ● Create communities of educator-led action-oriented teachers & staff: BPS will recruit, hire, develop, support, and retain innovation highly effective, culturally proficient school ● Provide diverse educators with access to and district leaders, teachers, and staff who are held accountable for improving student resources to better serve our most outcomes. marginalized students ● Celebrate, disseminate, and iterate new learning and promising practice

4 Teacher Leadership Fund Application and Selection ▫ Teams apply to address a challenge facing students who have historically been marginalized. ▪ Action Grants ▪ Study Grants ▪ School-based or Cross-school ▫ Scoring by educators and administrators ▫ Holistic final selection of cohort ▪ Diversity of team members ▪ School type/level ▪ Educator roles ▪ Intended impacts

Program Statistics SY18-19 5 Teacher Leadership Fund

6 Teacher Leadership Fund 2018-19 Bright Spots School Based: Cross Schools: Tobin Tiger Streak A School Nurse-led Intervention to Addresses Focus: Chronic absenteeism the Social Emotional Outcome: Met or Exceeded Learning of Students with all DESE targets, increased daily Chronic Illness attendance, exceeded targets for lowest performing 25% Focus: Sickle-cell disease Broader Impact: Student Outcome: Created and piloted ambassadors will present at toolkit district attendance symposium. Broader Impact: Presented to all school leaders in June

7 Teacher Leadership Fund Educator Refl flections 100% 92% felt empowered to lead able to address the needs of most innovation marginalized students “The opportunity to drive our own learning re-ignited our passion for our highly-specialized work.”