League of Innovative Schools

Location: New England

The League of Innovative Schools is a new collaboration-driven support network for New England's secondary schools. Membership in the League is open to any interested secondary school - including charter schools and career-and-technical centers - provided that the school community is committed to sustainable improvement and willing to share their practices with colleagues across their state and region. As League members, participating schools will become part of a growing network of secondary institutions working to improve programs, exchange professional expertise, and create more student-centered learning opportunities. In an era of top-down accountability, the League of Innovative Schools is founded on the belief that professional integrity, authentic collaboration, and self-accountability can motivate, sustain, and enhance school improvement.

Highlights:

In October 2010, the New England Secondary School Consortium assembled a group of dedicated educators from Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont devise new strategies for supporting the redesign of secondary learning at scale across the region. No longer satisfied with pockets of excellence—where student performance and learning outcomes are often determined by zip code—these educators were committed to designing an open and flexible network that encourages, inspires, nudges, and supports educators to improve, while also explicitly acknowledging the talents, capacity, and commitment already present in New England’s high schools. These teachers, principals, superintendents, and state officials are excited to announce the League of Innovative Schools, and to invite high schools across the five states to join our regional network.

Links:

• League of Innovative Schools - http://www.newenglandssc.org/league
• The New England Secondary School Consortium - http://www.newenglandssc.org/

Submitted by Shawn Strader on: Sunday, November 06, 2011 - 2:52 pm

Tags for this entry:
collaboration, accountability, new england, membership, student-centered learning