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Introductory Overview

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Salem Public Schools

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2014 – Blueprint Schools Network. All Rights Reserved.

Who We AreOverview

• Blueprint Schools Network (Blueprint) is a nonprofit organization that partners with school districts to promote educational equity and improve life outcomes for students in their lowest performing schools.

• Using a set of research-based, comprehensive reform strategies, Blueprint partners with school districts to plan, implement, and monitor the progress of whole school turnaround.

• Blueprint also operates a stand-alone tutoring program called The Blueprint Fellows Program (Fellows Program). The Fellows Program is an intensive, daily, in-school tutoring program that provides an important academic intervention in math and literacy for our partner schools.

• Blueprint’s team of experienced practitioners from education and the private sector works directly with district and school leadership to build their capacity to oversee transformative school improvement.

• Blueprint is supporting 62 schools in the 2013-14 school year that serve more than 11,000 students.

• To-date, Blueprint’s partner schools have shown promising gains, outpacing district and state growth metrics, and showing us that transforming networks of underperforming district schools is possible.

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Who We AreWhere We Work

Blueprint has partnered with school districts in four states to turnaround their lowest performing schools and implement a daily tutoring program in math.

Boston Public Schools

2 Turnaround Schools*

*Will expand to 3 schools in

2014/15 school year

Denver Public Schools 22 Turnaround Schools

Math Tutoring in 29 Schools and 2 Charter Schools

Houston Independent

School District Math Tutoring in 20

Schools

Past Projects

Current Projects

Saint Louis Public Schools

Math/Literacy Tutoring in 7 Schools

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Excellence in Leadership and

Instruction

Increased Instructional Time

A Culture of High Expectations

for All

Daily Tutoring in Critical Growth

Years 3:1

Using Data to Improve Instruction

Who We AreThe Five Blueprint Strategies

To accelerate achievement in our nation’s schools, Blueprint partners with districts to plan, implement, and monitor the roll out of the five most effective strategies of high-performing charter schools, as identified through leading research.

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What We DoOur Process

Blueprint’s process in partnering with districts involves four stages: 1) Planning; 2) Implementation; 3) Monitoring; and 4) Ongoing Evaluation and Reflection.

Planning

• Once partnered with a district, we spend time learning about their systems and structures before we begin planning our implementation.

• We then on-board a Blueprint-employed Regional Director and a support team to oversee the turnaround implementation.

• During this period we meet with district departments to learn about their systems to determine how Blueprint’s framework can best be adapted and integrated.

Implementation

• Beginning in planning months, Blueprint and its partners begin a customized implementation of the five strategies.

• Implementation includes: the recruitment and selection of tutors, teachers and principals; coordination with district leadership on school calendaring and scheduling; implementation of the Fellows Program; and other activities.

Monitoring

• In addition to daily monitoring of the turnaround schools from Blueprint’s on-the-ground teams, Blueprint conducts formal site visits to each school every four to six weeks, collecting data on the implementation and providing quantitative and qualitative feedback to district and school leaders regarding school progress.

Ongoing Evaluation and

Reflection

• Blueprint monitors and evaluates the progress of its partner schools throughout the year and at year’s end.

• Blueprint’s relationships with leading researchers allows us to maintain current with leading findings and receive third-party evaluations that give us additional feedback into our work.

• Additionally, Blueprint leverages its national network to reflect on successes and challenges so leaders can learn from one another as they enter a new school year.

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Five Year Math Proficiency Trends in DSSN Phase-in/Turnaround Schools, 2008-2012

In math, DSSN turnaround and phase-in schools outpaced the district in growth in 2012. Each grade level achieved the greatest number of students scoring proficient or advanced in five years.

DPS pp Growth 2012 DSSN pp Growth 2012Grade 03 3 14Grade 04 3 23Grade 05 -1 14Grade 06 -1 14Grade 09 3 11

Denver Summit Schools Network (DSSN) ResultsMath Trends, Year 1

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All grades in which all five strategies were implemented saw growth that surpassed that of the district.

DSSN Results Reading Trends, Year 1

DPS pp Growth 2012 DSSN pp Growth 2012Grade 03 3 17Grade 04 6 7Grade 05 3 12Grade 06 5 8Grade 09 5 10

Five Year Reading Proficiency Trends in DSSN Phase-in/Turnaround Schools, 2008-2012

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Student performance growth in math at Green Valley elementary school was greater than 99% of all other elementary schools in Colorado…

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Green Valley McGlone

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MGP Percentile compared with the state, 2012:

Student Performance Growth at Elementary Schools

DSSN ResultsMGP in Context – Year 1

DSSN elementary turnarounds showed some of the highest growth in reading, writing and math.

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DSSN Results Results - Year 2

As a network, DSSN schools implementing Blueprint’s five school turnaround strategies achieved the highest percentage of students scoring proficient and advanced in Reading, Writing and Math in 5 years.

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Pre-Turnaround Turnaround Initiative



Cumulative MGP growth scores for the network are 50 or above for Reading, Writing and Math for two years in a row, something that had not occurred for at least three years before the intervention by Blueprint.

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Pre-Turnaround Turnaround Initiative



Colorado’s School Performance Framework (SPF) rates schools on multiple measures and assigns each school one of five colors (Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange or Red). After two years of the partnership with Blueprint all schools except DCIS Ford have improved at least two color levels on the SPF. Green Valley Ranch Elementary received the highest rating of Blue this year. McGlone Elementary and High Tech High are both rated Green.

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Pre-turnaround SPF SPF after 2 years

McGlone McGlone

Green Valley Ranch Green Valley Ranch

Ford DCIS at Ford

Noel NCAS DCIS at Montbello

Montbello High Tech Early College Collegiate Prep Academy

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