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Leveraging advocates, technology, and relationships to cultivate agency iNacol Symposium 2015 2 T h e R e S c h o o l D i f f e r e n c e Todays Agenda Explore the ReSchool Colorado vision Explore the use of advocates and
Leveraging advocates, technology, and relationships to cultivate agency iNacol Symposium 2015
« Explore the ReSchool Colorado vision « Explore the use of advocates and technology to cultivate agency « Share early learning from a pilot with learners and their advocates « Gather your input and ideas 2
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How do you define agency? How have you cultivated your own sense of agency? Ø Who helped you? Ø What experiences were most impactful?
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Driving a personal path A clear sense of self Loves learning Cultivated knowledge, skills, mindset
Current ¡System ¡ ReSchool ¡Colorado ¡System ¡ School-‑Centered ¡ Learner/Family-‑Centered ¡ One ¡Learning ¡Provider ¡ ¡ Mul;ple ¡Learning ¡Providers ¡ Enroll ¡in ¡a ¡school ¡ Enroll ¡in ¡an ¡advocate ¡network ¡ ¡ District/school ¡controls ¡$ ¡ Learner/Family ¡control ¡$ ¡ Learning ¡is ¡grade/;me-‑based ¡ Learning ¡is ¡competency-‑based ¡
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² Who was/is your advocate? ² What did they do to support you?
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» Shadowed advocates and found many operate in isolation » The technology currently in use is largely advocate, not student facing, and doesn’t adequately document the resources they access » Desire an effective way to manage student goals/pathways and to facilitate relationships and connections with/for students » Research led us to the pilot and the partnership with Fidelis Education and our advocate/learner participants
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To test how the Fidelis Learning Relationship Manager (LRM) could serve to:
» create a financially-viable vision for learner advocates » support advocates in driving learner agency » assemble the resource network needed to execute the ReSchool Colorado vision at scale
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Technology is a echnology is a challeng challenge e
» Advocate and learner comfort with the technology » Learner access to technology
Educ Education system ation system inhibits learner inhibits learner ag agency ency
» The LRM represents a significant cultural shift; existing habits , structures, and mindsets can get in the way
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ates to use LRM as an to use LRM as an add-on add-on
» Isolated use within
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Sign up for the ReSchool newsletter and learn more at www.dkfoundation.org Amy Anderson, Director, ReSchool Colorado aanderson@dkfoundation.org Colleen Broderick, Chief Learning Designer, ReSchool Colorado cbroderick@dkfoundation.org Chris Valada, Account Executive, Fidelis Education chris@fidelis-inc.com