The Brockport Central School District, in partnership with Expeditionary Learning and The College at Brockport, has been awarded a Strengthening Teacher and Leader Effectiveness 3 (STLE) grant from the New York State Education Department for $459,500.
“This grant will help us achieve our goal of ensuring all students graduate from a leading, innovative, high-performing district that graduates each student prepared for college or a career,” says Brockport Central School District Superintendent Dr. Lesli C. Myers. “By providing these opportunities, the district will establish a high-performing school culture that will lead to an increase of effective and highly effective educators who set challenging goals for themselves and each student.”
The STLE grant is designed to help districts improve student achievement and district performance through a strategic focus on teaching and learning methods that are research based and have a proven track record of success. The Brockport Central School District envisions a Teacher Leader Effectiveness (TLE) Continuum that supports current educators while attracting future candidates to meet the needs of diverse student groups by: providing differentiated support to improve performance; using data systems; formulating formative and summative assessments to drive instructional practices and monitor progress regularly; holding teachers and leaders to measurable outcomes; and offering opportunities for both teachers and leaders to advance in their craft as designated by a distinct career ladder that moves professionals from novice to professional to leader.
Specific opportunities for teacher and leader will include:
•The development of an intensive teacher/administrative training program with The College at Brockport: State University of New York, including an intensive induction program parallel to what new teachers or administrators in the Brockport Central School District receive.
•Teachers and Administrators who are new to the district will be part of an induction and mentoring program that will support individuals throughout their first three years of teaching or as an administrator.
•The creation and utilization of Demonstration Classrooms focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics for pre service, novice and professional level teachers and administrators to view the instructional shifts in action.
•Administrators and teachers will participate in further training to better understand the expectations of the Danielson Framework for Teaching and the Multidimensional Principal Rubric and how they are evaluated. Inter rater agreement and calibration will be a key element for evaluators.
Nearly 150 districts, charters and consortia across the state have been awarded the STLE grants.
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