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• March 2008 Evaluation of SAM II

  

  March 2008 - This paper evaluates the Scaffolded Apprenticeship Model (SAM), a school improvement and leadership development program that supports a school inquiry team in closing student learning gaps and leading colleagues to do the same.

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Overview

A Commitment to Sharing Innovation

We are committed to sharing successful strategies and promising ideas that would benefit all schools and students. Many of our successful innovations have been scaled across the New York City public school system: The New Visions small school-design process was adopted by the New York City Department of Education to create 200 new high schools. The New Visions Principal Mentoring Program is now a key strategy for principal training within the NYC Leadership Academy. And our inquiry methodology, developed and piloted in our Scaffolded Apprenticeship Model (SAM), is now utilized in every public school throughout the city. Moreover, our programs have had national reach: New Visions and Baruch College SAM staff are now working with Boston and Oakland, Calif., schools to implement the school leadership training program.

Working with 76 partner schools, we also share resources, tools and promising practices that are emerging from the day-to-day practices of our schools, schools across the country and the education field. We have launched KnowledgeBase as a dynamic tool to engage educators and all those interested in education in sharing, vetting and responding to their innovative and promising practices.

New Visions KnowledgeBase

KnowledgeBase is an online platform that allows educators to learn and share information about all aspects of teaching, learning and the driving forces of education reform. KnowledgeBase provides a central, searchable space for planning curriculum, sharing resources and collaborating to strengthen students’ educational opportunities.

• Learn and collaborate: KnowledgeBase organizes information around several different areas of interest, where educators contribute to and learn more about important topics in education. KnowledgeBase users can also share files, engage in discussions and create their own collaborative online teams.
• Find, contribute and collect resources:  With resources that are constantly updated by our community of educators, the KnowledgeBase is a one-stop shop for quick access to lesson plans, units, activities, research and other helpful resources. KnowledgeBase members — individuals, teams and schools — can also create tailored collections that house their particular resources in a single, convenient location.
• Create and share curriculum:  In addition to accessing curriculum resources, KnowledgeBase provides a curriculum tool, the Planner, that allows educators to create, share and modify curriculum plans.

We created KnowledgeBase to improve student performance by supplementing and supporting important work within schools and the larger education reform community. Most importantly, KnowledgeBase is designed to support educators in their efforts to collaborate and enhance student learning.