Internationals Network For Public Schools Inc

Professional and leadership developmentinternationals offered a variety of professional development and leadership development services in its national network schools and academies with a continued focus on three regional hubs in nyc, ca, and dc/md/va. Professional development staff created new workshops to meet the changing needs of schools while continuing to further refine existing workshops. In all three regional hubs, these activities included direct supports for schools and academies as well as facilitated network-wide activities such as facilitated intervisitations and working groups. For its nyc regional network, internationals provided instructional support and leadership development including support for principals and assistant principals; support for college advisors, social workers, and counselors; as well as other forms of customized instructional and leadership support. Regional network support for schools and academies in the dc, md, va and bay area regions included professional development for teachers, instructional coaching, professional learning communities and other supports. Internationals designed and facilitated workshops for educators from network and non-network schools in regional summer professional development institutes as well as educators at the annual pd conference. The annual national leadership retreat brought together school and academy staff from across the country. Internationals expanded efforts to collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to better support schools as well as to understand its impact.

Policy and advocacy internationals continued to partner with researchers and policy/advocacy groups to inform practices and policies impacting immigrants/ells, mostly in ny state but also nationally. Internationals' work included ell-focused professional organizations, community-based organizations and coalitions, civil rights organizations, and other non-profits. Internationals also presented and participated in convenings and conferences with researchers and other education practitioners. Internationals continued a broader focus on promoting a deeper understanding among policymakers, legislators, educators and the advocacy community on the following issues; performance assessment for ells, the need for multiple pathways to graduation, college access for immigrants, and support for undocumented students. Internationals continued to publish its series of learning briefs. Learning briefs are short, accessible series of publications that serve as a forum for internationals to share promising practices and learnings from our schools centered around a specific theme or topic. The most recent series shared lessons learned on the benefits of project based learning for multilingual learners.

Model disseminationin addition to supporting its network schools and academies, internationals partnered with schools and districts outside its network. Internationals provided professional development workshops to schools and districts and facilitated school visits for district and school staff from non-network schools. Educators from non-network schools participated in the professional development conferences including the summer institute and the fall pd conference. Some of this model dissemination work may eventually lead to the creation of new schools or academies in future years.