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    Renaissance Schools
    Allowing select districts to partner with experienced non-profits to open new schools.

    Charter Schools
    Building a high-performing charter sector through nationally recognized authorizing practice

    Education Technology
    Ensuring every district and school has infrastructure necessary to support PARCC implementation and accessing online resources

    Inter-District School Choice
    Increasing public school options for parents and students

    School Innovation: A process through which educational leaders design, implement and continuously improve an approach to educating students that rethinks the traditional classroom and leverages the limited resources of technology, talent and time to better meet the needs of all students.

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    Highlight in Innovation

    Essex County Vocational Technical Schools
    Newark Tech Campus

    "I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Einstein

    Newark Tech is creating an environment in which individualized, flexible pathways foster active learning, critical thinking, and original thought. Traditional high schools often operate in silos, in which diverse areas of study are taught according to a schedule that pushes students through a set curriculum at a set pace toward a set of prescribed outcomes. In contrast, the Technology Enhanced Active Learning Center (TEAL Center) is a 3,300 square foot innovation hub, designed for student-driven learning, active communication and cross-curricular collaboration.

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    Coming Up

    Webinar (4 of 4): Planning for Continuous Improvement

    May 21, 2013, 3:30 – 5:00pm
    Click here to register

    What are strategies for developing a continuous improvement process that provides timely and regular feedback towards goals and opportunities? How can the continuous improvement process ensure that the district or consortium will monitor, measure, and publicly share information on the quality of its investments? This webinar will explore some effective approaches to ongoing communication and engagement with internal and external stakeholders to make blended learning successful. We will also discuss goal setting and planning processes that lead to successful blended learning implementations.