New Schools Project Funded by: Jessie B. and Clement W. Stone Foundation

1. New Schools Project Funded by: Jessie B. and Clement W. Stone Foundation McCormick Tribune Foundation McDougal Family Foundation Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation

2. The New Schools Project asks… how can we help CPS schools create optimal PK- Grade 3 learning environments so that children enter the fourth grade with knowledge, skills, and motivation to be self-directed learners?

3. Child Development Communities of Practice Responsive Classroom Communities PK-3 Home Community Connections High Quality Instruction and Learning

4. Knowledge of Child Development and Learning • Age related child characteristics • Strengths and interests of • individual children • Knowledge of social and • cultural contexts • Providing ABC’s: autonomy, belonging, competency Child Development Communities of Practice Responsive Classroom Communities High Quality Instruction Pk-3 Home/ Community Connections and learning

5. Communities of Practice Communities of practice • Strong Leadership • Relational Trust • Shared Values and Goals • Collective Focus on Student Learning • Reflective Dialogue • Tendency Toward Innovation • Collaborative Practice Child development Responsive Classroom Communities High Quality Instruction Home/ Community Connections Pk-3 and learning

6. Responsive Classroom Communities • Sense of community: respect for the ideas, questions, and contributions of all members of the classroom • Curriculum focused on self-control, social participation and problem solving • High expectations for academic success • Equal access to learning for all students • (Charney, 1995,, Weiss & Pasley, 2004) Responsive Classroom Communities Child development Communities of Practice High Quality Instruction Pk-3 Home/ Community Connections and learning

7. High Quality Instruction High Quality Instruction • • Intellectually engaging curriculum that builds • academic understandings and social skills • required for collaborative learning • •Curriculum, instruction, and assessment • aligned vertically and horizontally across PK-3 • •Formative assessment to "read" • students’ level of understanding • and adjust instruction accordingly • •Questioning that helps students • make connections and • understand concepts across • domains Child development Communities of Practice Responsive Classroom Communities Pk-3 Home/ Community Connections and learning

8. Home/Community Connections Home/ Community Connections • Establish threads of communication • Home visits • Letters • email, DVD’s of classroom activities • Phone calls • Bring home culture into the school • Provide formal and in-formal learning activities • Parent-child activities at school and home • Parenting classes • Formal parent education (ESL, GED) • Community/city wide activities Child development Responsive Classroom Communities Responsive Communities of Practice High Quality Instruction Pk-3 and learning

9. Full Partnership Schools • Erikson facilitators … Schools at different places in each category Full Partnership Schools Communities of Practice Consult Home/ School Connections Collaborate Responsive Classroom Communities High Quality Instruction use Cognitive Coaching …to develop

10. A Full Partnership… • Commitment of Administrator/Teacher/Institute • Trusting relationships • Joint accountability for student success • Efficacious as change agents • Shared vision of teacher candidate Full Partner Schools New Schools Project Murrell, 1998, Bryk & Schneider, 2002, Chan, Lau, Nie, Lim, Hogan, 2008