Institute Success Planning Community Practice
Summer Workshop
EdRedesign’s Institute for Success Planning, housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, supports 16 communities across the U.S. through a process of designing, expanding, or improving systems of personalized, relationship-based support for children and youth. The Institute recently accepted 16 communities to participate in the Success Planning 2023 Community of Practice, which will run from June 2023 to June 2024.
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Day 1: Monday, July 18th
8:30-9:00am ET
Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:20 am ET
Welcome and Overview
Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration & Founding Director of EdRedesign, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Tauheedah Jackson, Director for the Institute for Success Planning, EdRedesign, Harvard Graduate School of Education
9:20-9:45am ET
Interactive Community Builder
9:45-10:15am ET
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Adrienne Battle, Director of Schools, Metro Nashville Public Schools
10:15-10:45am ET
Panel Discussion: Building and Sustaining a Comprehensive, Cross-sector, Systen of Supports
Panelists: Dr. Adrienne Battle and Tauheedah Jackson
Moderator: Paul Reville
10:45-11:00am ET
Break
11:00-11:30am ET
Success Planning Overview: Components, Principles, and Examples of Community Collaboration and Customization
Lynne Sacks, Director of Research, EdRedesign, Harvard Graduate School of Education
11:30am-12:30pm ET
Team Connection and Collaboration Session #1: Creating a Shared Vision
12:30-1:30pm ET
Networking Lunch
Indoor and outdoor options offered
1:30-2:30pm ET
Success Planning Component Highlight: Navigators
Dr. Keri Randolph, Executive Director, Chattanooga 2.0
2:30-3:30pm ET
Team Connection and Collaboration Session #2: Navigators
3:30-3:45pm ET
Break
3:45-4:45pm ET
Team Share Outs and Shout Outs
4:45-5:00pm ET
Break
5:00-6:30pm ET
Networking Reception
Located in Eliot Lyman Room, 2nd Floor of Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way
6:30pm ET
Explore Cambridge and Dinner on Your Own
Day 2: Tuesday, July 19
8:45-9:30am ET
Breakfast and Cross-Community Networking "Table Talks"
9:30-10:00am ET
Community Builder: Crisis and Opportunity Protocol
10:00-11:00am ET
Success Planning Component Highlight: System of Supports
Victoria C. Roberts, M.Ed., Student Success Planning Manager, United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County
11:00-11:15am ET
Break
11:15am-12:15pm ET
Team Connection and Collaboration Session #3: System of Supports
12:15-1:15pm ET
Networking Lunch
Indoor and outdoor options offered
1:15-2:15pm ET
Success Planning Principle Highlight: Relationship-Driven
Leslie Varble, Principle for Instruction, Unity Point School
Jennifer Woolridge, Resilient Southern Illinois Parent Mentor Director, Unity Point School
2:15-3:15pm ET
Team Connection and Collaboration Session #4: Relationship-Driven
3:15-3:30pm ET
Break
3:30-4:45pm ET
Community to Community Consultancies
Breakout rooms located in Gutman Library and/or other HGSE buildings nearby
4:45-5:00pm ET
Debrief and Closing
5:00pm ET
Dinner on Your Own and Choose Your Own Adventure
Day 3: Wednesday, July 20th
8:30-9:00am ET
Breakfast: Dine and Dialogue
9:00-9:30am ET
Community Builder: Leadership Matters: How We Show Up
9:30-10:30am ET
Success Planning Principles Highlight: Equitable and Information-Driven
EdRedesign staff
10:30-11:45am ET
Community Check-In Sessions and 3-2-1 Presentation Preparation
Breakout rooms located in Gutman Library and/or other HGSE buildings nearby
11:45am-12:30pm ET
Networking Lunch
Indoor and outdoor options offered
12:30-1:30pm ET
Gallery Walk: Community 3-2-1 Presentations
1:30-2:00pm ET
Closing Activity and Farewell
Monday, July 18th:
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Adrienne Battle
Director of Schools, Metro Nashville Public Schools
Dr. Adrienne Battle was named director of Metro Nashville Public Schools by a unanimous vote of the city's Board of Education on March 13, 2020, after serving 11 months as interim director. With more than 150 schools and a budget of more than $1 billion, MNPS is one of the nation's largest school districts and one of Nashville's largest employers.
Dr. Battle, a Nashville native, has spent almost her entire career with MNPS. She is a graduate of the district's John Overton High School, Missouri State University and Tennessee State University, where she earned her master's, education specialist and doctorate degrees in Educational Administration and Supervision.
She has focused on a vision of personalizing education for every student, improving school culture and climate, and retaining and recruiting the best talent. Dr. Battle sums up her drive for continuous improvement at all levels with the motto, "Know where you are, but don't stay there" and has emphasized the need to make sure every student is known, supported, cared for and on a path to success by working to achieve a series of measurable goals known as focused outcomes.
Dr. Battle has led MNPS through its recovery from devastating tornadoes in the spring of 2020 and its ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which required the district to meet educational and humanitarian needs across Nashville and Davidson County while managing new budgetary restrictions. She co-chaired the citywide task force that created the Nashville Plan: Framework for a Safe, Efficient, and Equitable Return to School, which detailed three scenarios for starting the 2020-21 school year based on community spread of the novel coronavirus.
Dr. Battle also proposed a series of changes that the Board of Education unanimously approved as a result of her Metro Schools ReimaginED initiative, which continues to review academic achievement data, current and projected enrollment, building use, programs, and staffing to find new ways to improve academic outcomes for all students. She initiated Better Together, a joint venture with Nashville State Community College to create more and stronger pathways to college and career success for MNPS graduates.
She previously served MNPS as a math, reading and language arts teacher; an assistant principal, academic principal, and executive principal; a turnaround coach for principals of the district's priority schools; and as a community superintendent overseeing all schools in the southeast quadrant as well as high schools across the district. She is an expert on school turnaround strategies and practices. Antioch High School made strong academic gains, including earning Reward School status in 2014 as one of the state's fastest-improving schools, under Dr. Battle's leadership. She led the transformation of a school that had been designated as low-performing in 2010 into one of the fastest-growing schools in the state.
Dr. Battle was a member of Leadership Nashville's 2021-22 class. She was recently named the Professional Educators of Tennessee's 2022 Superintendent of the Year, and in 2021 she was named the Tennessee Principals Association's Supervisor of the Year and received the Nashville NAACP's Legacy Award. She won the Academies of Nashville Executive Principal of the Year Award and the William J. and Lucille H. Field Award in Support of Excellence in Tennessee Secondary Leadership from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2015 and was named the MNPS Coach of the Year in 2010. She has served on the board of the Northwest YMCA in Nashville and is a member of the American Educational Research Association and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
We look forward to you joining us for the Success Planning CoP July workshop. Please see fellow participants here.
EVENT LOCATION
The workshop will begin with registration and breakfast at 8:30am Eastern on Monday, July 18th at the Gutman Conference Center located on the garden level of the Gutman Library (6 Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138), followed by a Welcome and Overview beginning at 9:00am. Greeters will be stationed at the front of Gutman to welcome you.
If you would like to familiarize yourself with the Harvard campus, you are welcome to check out this Harvard Campus Map. At the top of the webpage, there is a search bar where you can input locations you want to know about.
COVID PROTOCOL
We are committed to following Harvard's COVID-19 public health guidelines for in-person programming. All visitors to the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) campus will be required to follow HGSE Covid policies which at this time require all visitors to attest that they are fully vaccinated and are not experiencing or displaying any known symptoms of COVID-19. Visitors must complete their attestations using HGSE Clear. Additionally, all visitors will be expected to comply with Harvard's masking policy. Currently, face coverings on Harvard's campus are optional in most indoor spaces. HGSE Covid policies are subject to change. Visitors will be kept abreast of any policy changes.
Please note: Visitors must complete their attestations using HGSE Clear prior to arrival. Once you complete the attestation form, you will receive a confirmation via email that you have permission to visit campus. This confirmation will include a digital green checkmark that must be verified (either in digital or printed form) when you arrive at the event registration. Visitor attestations are only valid for 7 days so please complete the attestation no sooner than a day before arrival.
In addition to following Harvard’s Covid-19 public health guidelines, we recognize that there are different levels of comfort with physical interaction such as handshaking and hugging. We understand and respect those differences and expect all attendees to do so as well.
ATTIRE
Attire is business casual. The weather forecast is expected to be in the high-80s during the day. All event spaces are airconditionned.
PARKING
For local participants, validated parking is available at University Place Garage, 45 University Road. The garage is a 5-minute walk to the event location. Please see a member of the EdRedesign staff to obtain a validation ticket before you return to your car at the end of the day. We regret that we are not able to reimburse out-of-pocket costs. In order to have your parking covered, you must use the validation ticket.
TECHNOLOGY
Wireless internet can be accessed on campus. Login information will be provided the day of the convening.
HOTEL
For those guests traveling out of town, you will have received a hotel confirmation with the hotel location and the process for checking in. The hotel is in walking distance to the workshop location.
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
Cambridge is home to many local attractions, including universities, museums, recreational activities on the Charles River, and an array of restaurants, bars, and shops. You can find a list of local attractions in Harvard Square on this website.
SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION
We have developed a social media kit to help amplify the Success Planning efforts of the inaugural cohort. Please feel free to use the kit to elevate your community’s work on behalf of children and youth. You can use the following hashtag as part of your outreach: #SuccessPlanningWorkshop2022
Success Planning Resources - General
- Success Planning Overview (EdRedesign, 2022)
- Seizing the Moment for Transformative Change: A Framework for Personalized, Student Success Planning (Executive Summary) (EdRedesign, 2021)
- Nashville's 'Navigator' Tries to Keep Students in Remote Learning From Getting Lost in the System (The 74 Million, 2020)
- Metro Nashville Public Schools Navigator Handbook 2021-2022 (Metro Nashville Public Schools, 2021)
- America's Schools Need a New Paradigm: Personalization (The Boston Globe, 2021)
- National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support (Boston College, Center for Thriving Children)
- Early Warning and Response System Memorandum of Understanding Example
Workshop-Related
- Success Planning Summer Workshop Team Time Workbook (blank template): Download a copy to your computer in order to access an editable version.
- Success Planning Community Pre-Work (blank template): Download a copy to your computer in order to access an editable version.
- Workshop Day 1 Slides (pdf)
- Workshop Day 2 Slides (pdf)
- Workshop Day 3 slides (pdf)
Completed Pre-Work Assignments
Teams will use this pre-work during one of the workshop sessions. Please feel free to bring a printed copy if you prefer a physical version or download an electronic copy from this site
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