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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 Today’s Agenda « 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

3 T H E R E S C H O O L D I F F E R E N C E Discussion How do you define agency? How have you cultivated your own sense of agency? Ø Who helped you? Ø What experiences were most via flickr: zachd1_618, wsworkshop impactful?

4 T H E R E S C H O O L D I F F E R E N C E What are some characteristics of Driving a personal . path a person who has Cultivated Loves knowledge, learning agency? skills, mindset A clear sense of self

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7 T H E R E S C H O O L D I F F E R E N C E Discussion ² Who was/is your advocate? ² What did they do to support you? via flickr: zachd1_618, wsworkshop

8 The Pilot » 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 e ff ective 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

TECHNOLOGY facilitates

16 Advocate Pilot Goals: 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

T H E R E S C H O O L D I F F E R E N C E 17 Early learning Educ Education system ation system Natur ature of pilot e of pilot Technology is a echnology is a inhibits learner inhibits learner requir equires adv es advoc ocates ates challenge challeng e ag agency ency to use LRM as an to use LRM as an » Advocate and add-on add-on learner comfort » The LRM represents a with the significant cultural technology » Isolated use within shift; existing habits , organization structures, and » Learner access to mindsets can get in technology the way

Questions?

19 Connect with us directly 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 Sign up for the ReSchool newsletter and learn more at www.dkfoundation.org