One dimension of school reform is program.  The Center for Global Educational Leadership offers tremendous opportunities for enriched programming for our students.  Below in the attached documents is the February 21st Global Alert.  It has specific travel and professional development programs for both students and teachers listed. 

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Below is the restructuring plan put in place in the spring of 2008.   

There are copies of previous and current reform plans attached as files below. These include the McKinsey Business Plan (titled Business Plan), the Blue Ribbon Panel Report done in the Vance Administration; DCEC Plan for Action 2 volumes, DCEC Graduating Workplace and College Ready, the Master Education Plan done in the Janey administration and the draft plan proposed by the current Rhee administration. 

In the attachment section at the bottom of this page there is a description of the requirements for Parental Involvement under NCLB. It specifies what should be in written policy, the consultation required of particularly low income parents and the funds that should be allocated for this use.  This research is thanks to Mary Levy.

The 10 neighborhood DCPS neighborhood high schools were all restructured in the spring of 2008 under No Child Left Behind.  The chart below outlines the type of reconstruction for each of those schools.

1.      Reconstitution

Teachers or administrators who were asked to leave the high schools being reconstituted were placed at other schools, honoring the provisions of the contracts or memorandums.  If they could not be placed they remained in an excess capacity assigned to schools.  If they were not placed by October of 2009, they were vulnerable to the Reduction In Force conducted at that time.

2.      Collaborate with an external partner: Anacostia, Coolidge, and Dunbar interviewed potential partners in April of 2008. These schools were selected as partnership schools.  This was a major part of their restructuring plans.  Bedford Academy is now the management partner for Coolidge and Dunbar.  Friendship Charter School is the partner for Anacostia High School.  The first year as a partnership school - - 2008-2009 - - was identified as a planning year.  In the fall of 2009 the partners took over the management of the school. All employees remain employees of DCPS but report to both the partner and DCPS.

3.      New school formation:  Eastern was instructed not to admit any 9^th grade students.  Current Eastern students will continue through to graduation in a school with one less grade each year.  

 Woodson was split over two campuses as the building is razed and rebuilt.  It will be a STEM school when both campuses move to the new building.  There will be a new administrative team at the upper campus.  Woodson formerly had a successful Business and Finance Academy.

4.  Option V—Roosevelt and Spingarn will have an assistant principal of instruction and one for operations.  They will also implement 9^th and 10^th grade academies with a dedicated teaching staff, designated space and consistent course offerings.

5.  In addition to the specific senior high school restructuring recommendations, the District announced a set of District Wide Initiatives:

1. Office of Schools will be reorganized to focus on creating structures that facilitate systematic targeted support to the lowest performing schools
2. Consistent approach to curriculum and instruction
3. DCPS Leadership Academy
4. Placement of Instructional Coaching in literacy and Math support – instructional coaches will be placed at all sites
5. Integrated data management systems
6. A variety of alternative education offerings will be provided for students at risk of becoming disengaged – on and off general education sites 
7. Core content teachers will implement District created standards based pacing charts that outline a suggested order and pacing
8. 9^th grade Academies will have dedicated teaching staff, designated space and consistent course offerings
9. Flexible block schedule with common planning time – “the master schedule will also encourage student participation in “out of school time” programs by allowing the possibility of beginning those programs early one day a week while teachers are in collaborative planning time.
10. Individual Graduation Plans
11. Intensive Instructional support:
12. Diagnostic Assessments with assignment to one of two levels of intervention in English
• Tier one – 120 minute literacy block – Holt readers to provide support in small groups through guided and independent practice
• Tier three ­- READ 180 for 9^th and 10^th grade
13. For Math
• Tier one Math – 10^th graders will receive support using the MC CAS practice books  
• Tier two Math – structured Accelerated Math lessons – computer based
• Tier three – for more than one year below grade level – adopted in 2010 -2011
14. After School for All, Saturday Scholars, Summer Bridge Academy, Summer School