Moving Toward Sustainability: Kansas City Teacher ResidencyJeremy Knight
Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher residency program that recruits, certifies, and develops teachers in the Kansas city region. Launched in 2016, by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KCTR has established a high-quality and diverse teacher preparatory program for Kansas City. In late 2018, Bellwether partnered with KCTR and Kauffman Foundation to redesign KCTR's program model to bring it in line with peer benchmarks and ensure long-term impact and sustainability. Over six months, Bellwether, in collaboration with KCTR's senior leadership team, Board, and key advisers, developed and began to implement a plan to put KCTR on a path to organizational and financial sustainability (initial changes significantly reduced the ongoing fundraising need). Key priorities identified in the plan included strengthening partnerships (with schools and university), optimizing KCTR expenditures, exploring new earned-revenue opportunities, and gradually growing the number of residents to full-scale. With the new plan, KCTR is prepared to continue the growth of impact while doing so in a sustainable manner, to ultimately fuel Kansas City with passionate, effective, and diverse educators.
A Guide for School Districts: Exploring Alternative Measures of Student Learn...Tanya Paperny
Districts across the country play a crucial role in ensuring schools effectively serve students and families. Beyond federal requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act and state-level accountability systems, locally developed school performance frameworks are a key lever for holding schools accountable, particularly for student learning and wellness.
Today — with unfamiliar school configurations and unknown impacts on student outcomes — it is more important than ever that districts are diligent about assessing schools’ impact on students. But the ways that districts have done so in the past may no longer be appropriate. And districts that previously did not engage in school-level performance assessments now have a new incentive to do so.
This toolkit is a resource to help districts adapt existing school performance frameworks to the current moment or create new ones. These slides identify and walk through the fundamental questions districts need to consider in designing school performance frameworks that acknowledge the challenges that schools and students are facing, as well as a continued need to monitor performance and continuously improve.
Changing the Conversation: Making the Case for Funding Deferred Maintenance [...Sightlines
We are at a unique point in the history of managing higher education campuses. Two historic waves of building construction, 1955-1975, and 1995-2010 are increasing demands for capital investments at a time when resources available are limited. Traditional strategies for funding deferred maintenance (DM) will not work in the future. There is just too much backlog to be addressed at the time life cycles of newer buildings are coming due.
Facilities leaders know that there is a cost of waiting to fund DM projects: higher capital costs, program disruption and higher operational costs. But making the case to senior management for funding facilities sooner rather than later is a challenge as they try to balance funding facilities vs. funding faculty salaries and increase student financial aid.
In this session, participants learn from facilities leaders from California public and private campuses who have worked with Sightlines to package the DM needs into investment portfolios and successfully make the case for funding.
Moving Toward Sustainability: Kansas City Teacher ResidencyJeremy Knight
Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher residency program that recruits, certifies, and develops teachers in the Kansas city region. Launched in 2016, by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, KCTR has established a high-quality and diverse teacher preparatory program for Kansas City. In late 2018, Bellwether partnered with KCTR and Kauffman Foundation to redesign KCTR's program model to bring it in line with peer benchmarks and ensure long-term impact and sustainability. Over six months, Bellwether, in collaboration with KCTR's senior leadership team, Board, and key advisers, developed and began to implement a plan to put KCTR on a path to organizational and financial sustainability (initial changes significantly reduced the ongoing fundraising need). Key priorities identified in the plan included strengthening partnerships (with schools and university), optimizing KCTR expenditures, exploring new earned-revenue opportunities, and gradually growing the number of residents to full-scale. With the new plan, KCTR is prepared to continue the growth of impact while doing so in a sustainable manner, to ultimately fuel Kansas City with passionate, effective, and diverse educators.
A Guide for School Districts: Exploring Alternative Measures of Student Learn...Tanya Paperny
Districts across the country play a crucial role in ensuring schools effectively serve students and families. Beyond federal requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act and state-level accountability systems, locally developed school performance frameworks are a key lever for holding schools accountable, particularly for student learning and wellness.
Today — with unfamiliar school configurations and unknown impacts on student outcomes — it is more important than ever that districts are diligent about assessing schools’ impact on students. But the ways that districts have done so in the past may no longer be appropriate. And districts that previously did not engage in school-level performance assessments now have a new incentive to do so.
This toolkit is a resource to help districts adapt existing school performance frameworks to the current moment or create new ones. These slides identify and walk through the fundamental questions districts need to consider in designing school performance frameworks that acknowledge the challenges that schools and students are facing, as well as a continued need to monitor performance and continuously improve.
Changing the Conversation: Making the Case for Funding Deferred Maintenance [...Sightlines
We are at a unique point in the history of managing higher education campuses. Two historic waves of building construction, 1955-1975, and 1995-2010 are increasing demands for capital investments at a time when resources available are limited. Traditional strategies for funding deferred maintenance (DM) will not work in the future. There is just too much backlog to be addressed at the time life cycles of newer buildings are coming due.
Facilities leaders know that there is a cost of waiting to fund DM projects: higher capital costs, program disruption and higher operational costs. But making the case to senior management for funding facilities sooner rather than later is a challenge as they try to balance funding facilities vs. funding faculty salaries and increase student financial aid.
In this session, participants learn from facilities leaders from California public and private campuses who have worked with Sightlines to package the DM needs into investment portfolios and successfully make the case for funding.
Schools, funding and performance: Lessons from the NSW National Partnerships. On November 18, Professor Stephen Lamb presented at a CESE Seminar on:
• Recent changes in school funding
• Evidence of impact of funding
• Evidence from evaluations of NSW low SES National Partnerships
• Conditions for ensuring success.
OECD School Resources Review - The Funding of School EducationEduSkills OECD
This report on the funding of school education constitutes the first in a series of thematic comparative reports bringing together findings from the OECD School Resources Review. School systems have limited financial resources with which to pursue their objectives and the design of school funding policies plays a key role in ensuring that resources are directed to where they can make the most difference. As OECD school systems have become more complex and characterised by multi-level governance, a growing set of actors are increasingly involved in financial decision-making. This requires designing funding allocation models that are aligned to a school system’s governance structures, linking budget planning procedures at different levels to shared educational goals and evaluating the use of school funding to hold decision makers accountable and ensure that resources are used effectively and equitably. This report was co-funded by the European Commission.
Pat Ashley, cohort director of N.C. State's Educational Leadership Academy, shared an overview of efforts in North Carolina over the last couple of decades to turn around low-performing schools to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education.
Part 2 of our presentation to the Council of Chief State School Officers on how states can support low-performing schools in the age of ESSA standards. The presentation was held June 22, 2017.
This presentation from Education Resource Strategies highlights the opportunities of resource allocation reviews to be more than a compliance exercise and create meaningful change for students.
After one year of in-depth resource analysis, ERS released a report on Duval County Public Schools (DCPS), Realigning Resources for District Success. The report provides a blueprint for the district, presenting in detail significant opportunities where the district can improve student outcomes despite dire budget realities through better alignment of resources to priorities. This presentation was given along with the report.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
for beginners, providing thorough training in areas such as SEO, digital communication marketing, and PPC training in Noida. After finishing the program, students receive the certifications recognised by top different universitie, setting a strong foundation for a successful career in digital marketing.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
1. A Study of Cost Adequacy,
Distribution and Alignment of
Funding for North Carolina’s K-
12 Public Education System
1.22.2020 • JasonWillis, Kelsey Krausen, Alex Berg-Jacobson, Ruthie Caparas, and Ryan Lewis
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LeandroTenet: Finance and Resources
North Carolina Supreme Court held that it is the State’s responsibility to see:
“[T]hat every school be provided, in the most cost-effective manner, the
resources necessary to support the effective instructional program within that
school so that the educational needs of all children, including at-risk children, to
have the equal opportunity to obtain a sound basic education can be met.”
Hoke County Board of Education v. State (Hoke IV), 95 CVS 1158 (2002)
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Research Questions
Adequacy
• How much funding is
necessary to achieve
the desired outcomes
identified in North
Carolina?
Distribution
• What is the current
distribution of funding
by district?
• What factors (statutory
or distribution of funds)
create inequities in
the allocation of
resources?
Alignment
• Is funding flexible
enough to ensure
effective use of funds?
• Is funding stable
enough to ensure
effective use of funds?
4. 4
Findings
1. Funding in North Carolina has declined over the last decade.
• When adjusted to 2018 dollars, per pupil spending in the state has
declined overall, about 6% since 2009-10.
2. The current distribution of education funding is inequitable.
3. Specific student populations need higher levels of funding.
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Findings (continued)
4. Greater concentrations of higher-needs students increases
funding needs.
5. Regional variations in costs impact funding needs.
6. The scale of district operations impacts costs.
7. Local funding and the Classroom Teacher allotments create
additional funding inequities.
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Findings (continued)
8. New constraints on local flexibility hinder district ability to align
resources with student needs.
9. Restrictions on Classroom Teacher allotments reduce flexibility
and funding levels.
10. Frequent changes in funding regulations hamper budget planning.
11. The state budget timeline and adjustments create instability.
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Findings (continued)
8. There is inadequate funding to meet student needs.
• Critical to consider the finding in tandem with the findings from other sections
of the report, particularly those that support more effective use of existing
resources.
• Research indicates that increases need to occur in two ways: (1) short-term
investments and (2) additional, ongoing funding over the next eight years.
• Student performance thresholds – such as graduation rates and ELA/math
performance – were used to identify the associated cost; and triangulated
with results from the professional judgment panels.
• Several scenarios were developed for consideration by stakeholders.
• Coordination between existing and new resources is essential to achieve the
desired results modeled.
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Findings (continued)
Other factors that influence the effectiveness of additional resources
• Coordination between existing and new resources is essential to achieve the
desired results modeled.
• Importantly, the choices of policymakers and practitioners about the use of
these resources, and the resulting outcomes for students, cannot be observed.
• This fact reinforces the importance of pursuing the implementation of other
recommendations in the report that are evidence-based to maximize the
potential for the effective use of resources.
• Necessarily, the implementation of recommendations must be measured,
monitored, and acted upon to ensure existing and any new resources are
having the intended impact on learning.
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Recommendations
1. Increase the cost effectiveness of the North Carolina funding
system so that public education investment prioritizes higher-
need students and provides appropriate flexibility to address local
needs.
2. Modify the school finance system to ensure future stability in
funding for public education, including predictable,
anticipated funding levels that acknowledge external cost
factors.
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Recommendations (cont.)
3. Increase the overall investment in North Carolina’s public schools
first by identifying a small number of foundational, high-impact
investments. Continued investment in these foundational areas
are most critical to setting the system up for success in the future.