The document above outlines Breakthrough Collaborative's Student Standards. These standards were developed by a group of affiliate staff, TF alumni, and National Office staff, led by a National Office staff member and two co-sponsors, including an Executive Director who was serving on the Affiliate Committee. This group was called a 'Collaboration Group', or CG. If you click on the link above, you can see what percent of the Collaborative was meeting each standard as of the Fall '23 Collaborative Standards Assessment.

The color-coding represents the National Office's ordering of the student standards into tiers. All standards matter, but we know it's not reasonable/feasible to focus on everything at once. Just like we think of bite-sized, actionable growth for our Teaching Fellows and students, that's how we want to think about and support progress toward standards. To that end, we've come up with a system of prioritization. This prioritization system will also help the National Office to tackle areas of growth/need in terms of resources. Think of the tiers like an "order of operations" for affiliates & the National Office - we want to solve the whole problem, but we need a place to start! In some cases, the National Office made choices based on need, but in many cases, there's an if/then logic to the standards, so a priority order was clear.

Breakthrough Collaborative Student Standards Collaboration Group Leads

Student Standards Collaboration Group Members: 

• Albion Sumrell, former Executive Director for Breakthrough New Orleans

• Beth Onofry, Executive Director of Breakthrough New York

• Gina Carl, former Program Director for Breakthrough Pittsburgh

• Jennifer Rodgers, former Executive Director for Breakthrough at Norfolk Academy