Roadmap to Success: Guiding Change in Washington Schools
Global Partnership Schools and CORE, Inc. are approved by the Office of Public Instruction to provide services to improve achievement in low performing schools in your district. We have the capacity, experience, and expertise needed to turnaround or transform schools on your Tier I and Tier II priority lists.
Led by two former AASA National Superintendent of the Year winners—Manny Rivera and Rudy Crew have proven records of success in the nation’s largest school districts— Global Partnership Schools has partnered with CORE to chart a course that supports highly effective teaching and learning, transforming practice and enhancing results. CORE has worked with over 1000 schools and 200 districts, and their expertise in early reading, intervention, adolescent literacy, special education, assessment, writing, English learners, mathematics, and Response to Intervention has led to impressive achievement gains.
At the heart of the Global Partnership Schools – CORE Roadmap to Success is leadership, professional capacity, parent-community ties, student-centered learning, and ambitious instruction. Our model will help you implement systems and strategies to substantially increase student performance by using proven methods.
Our detailed plan for school transformation will:
- Promote high expectations
- Build capacity on the ground with a focus on collective responsibility for results
- Harness high-yield strategies that effect change
- Create structures that promote effective teaching and learning
3-Year Roadmap to Success
Within 60 Days
- Consultation
- Review of existing resources
- School effectiveness diagnostic
- Action plan to guide work
First Year
- Leadership and instructional coaching
- Collaborative planning
- Establish Reading Academy
- Formative assessments
- Parent engagement
- Launch creation of surround care network
Second Year
- Updated action plan
- Establish Math Academy
- Technology platform for collaboration
- Structured observation at high-performing school
Third Year
- Updated action plan
- Focus on sustainability of structures and capacity
- Emphasis on peer coaching, teacher leadership
Supporting Rapid Change in Schools
Promote High Expectations for your Schools by:
- Using globally benchmarked standards of school excellence
- Creating a student-centered learning environment and community
- Planning school support that builds consensus and ownership
- Monitoring and sustaining measures of progress
Build Capacity on the Ground with a Focus on Collective Responsibility for Results by:
- Incorporating on-site management from a proven Education Change Leader
- Implementing extensive, year-round leadership coaching
- Using content coaching supported by researchbased reading and math instructional practices
- Finding the most effective use of available resources to deliver results
Harness High-Yield Strategies that Effect Change by:
- Implementing effective formative assessment to adapt instruction
- Building support through a network of services for students and families
- Eliminating instructional gaps and areas of opportunities using “Rapid Response” curriculum
- Using strategies that respond to the needs of every learner and incorporating technology
Create Structures that Promote Effective Teaching and Learning by:
- Integrating professional collaboration routines and instructional rounds
- Driving collaboration and change through organizational shifts
- Incorporating structured visits to highperforming schools
- Developing teacher leaders and peer coaching
- Including extended learning opportunities
