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Teacher Leadership Fund

September 25, 2019

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Where are we going today?

By the Numbers Bright Spots Reflections of TLF Educators What is the Teacher Leadership Fund? Mission and Values Application & Selection Process

Boston Public Schools Teacher Leadership Fund

Mission and Vision

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The Teacher Leadership Fund empowers educator-led innovation to address authentic classroom, school, and district challenges in service of student learning and well-being. Our mission is to:

• Create communities of educator-led

innovation

• Provide diverse educators with access to

resources to better serve our most marginalized students

• Celebrate, disseminate, and iterate new

learning and promising practice

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The TLF aligns to School Committee goals:

• 2. Improved school quality: BPS will be a

district of all high-performing schools, eliminating both the opportunity gap and the achievement gap.

• 3. Strong district leadership/high-quality,

action-oriented teachers & staff: BPS will recruit, hire, develop, support, and retain highly effective, culturally proficient school and district leaders, teachers, and staff who are held accountable for improving student

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Application and Selection

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▫ Teams apply to address a challenge facing students who have historically been marginalized. ▪ Action Grants ▪ Study Grants ▪ School-based or Cross-school ▫ Scoring by educators and administrators ▫ Holistic final selection of cohort ▪ Diversity of team members ▪ School type/level ▪ Educator roles ▪ Intended impacts

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Program Statistics SY18-19

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2018-19 Bright Spots

School Based:

Tobin Tiger Streak Focus: Chronic absenteeism Outcome: Met or Exceeded

all DESE targets, increased daily attendance, exceeded targets for lowest performing 25%

Broader Impact: Student

ambassadors will present at district attendance symposium.

Cross Schools:

A School Nurse-led Intervention to Addresses the Social Emotional Learning of Students with Chronic Illness Focus: Sickle-cell disease Outcome: Created and piloted

toolkit

Broader Impact: Presented to

all school leaders in June

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Educator Refl flections

100%

felt empowered to lead innovation

92%

able to address the needs of most marginalized students

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“The opportunity to drive our own learning re-ignited our passion for our highly-specialized work.”