What
is Project CALL?
Coaching and Assessment for Leadership and Learning
Through a grant from the Joyce Foundation, Alverno
College, in collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Schools and
Milwaukee Partnership Academy, is working with twelve schools serving
middle grades students (K-8’s and middle schools) over a two-year period in 2007-2009. These schools are participating in a two-fold
strategic intervention to improve student academic performance — intensive
coaching for the principal, assistant principal and learning team
and rigorous professional development focused on tools and techniques
for data-driven decision-making.
Project CALL seeks to help principals and school
learning teams
• Develop leadership capable of effective, collaborative efforts
to produce positive learning outcomes
• Develop the necessary skills to understand, collect, and
interpret data related to student achievement
• Analyze data to identify and apply needed instructional
strategies and interventions in the classroom to improve student
achievement
Project CALL provides each of the twelve schools
with these benefits:
• Intensive coaching for the leadership team: principal, assistant
principal/learning coordinator, and learning team. Two highly experienced
coaches each serve four of the schools, spending 4-6 hours per week
working with the team and with individuals.
• Capacity building workshops based on the
Southeastern Wisconsin Assessment Collaborative (SEWAC) model
are held five times a year. Each school will send a team of
6-8 members, including an administrator. The
SEWAC workshops assist team members to look at patterns of performance
and analyze those patterns in relationship to current curriculum
and teaching approaches. The 14 teams engage in discussions
and hands-on skill building exercises related to the analysis
of data, clarification of changes necessary in curriculum and
teaching strategies and the development of classroom-based assessments.
Each school’s team members pilot a process of
data gathering in year one that will be implemented with a broader
group of teachers at the schools in year two.
SEWAC dates for Project CALL schools in 2008-2009Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30
p.m.:
- September 23, 2008 (Conference Center)
- December 2, 2008 (Kellogg A)
- January 27, 2009 ( Kellogg A)
- March 24, 2009 (Kellogg A)
- May 5, 2009 (Kellogg A)
• Individual school incentive grants: Schools
receive a grant of $3,000 in each of the two years, which can be
used to support hiring substitutes to free up teachers to attend
workshops or engage in on-site professional development
For more information, please call the Alverno College
Institute for Educational Outreach at 414-382-6435.
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