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While there were meaningful quantitative gains made in each school we supported in Cycle 1, the qualitatitve shifts experienced were just as impactful and tangibly felt within the school culture. Moving forward we will seek to code qualitative measurements at the beginning and end of support cycles. Additionally, we will report back regarding gains in student academic performance and access as we continue with our sustainability process.
Over the year we have fostered a strong partnership to support Bronx Impact through South Bronx Rising Together, and Children's Aid. Through our partnership with these various organizations making a huge impact in the lives of our students and community members we have normed improvement science and the ART process to help look to research based and efficient interventions.
Moving forward we will continue to collaborate around supporting schools in Community District 3, participate in their Collective Response Convenings (CRCs), and be a part of their Bronx Town Halls.
Find additional information on South Bronx Rising Together: http://www.risingtogether.org/collective-impact
Find additional information on My Bronx Impact: https://my.bronximpact.org
It is not an exaggeration to say that our work does not exist in the spirit that it does without the leadership, scholarship, and NIC provided by the Carnegie Foundation. Recently, we had the honor of presenting in a consultancy protocol at a regional Carnegie confernce where we shared our process and was able to gain meaningful feedback from our colleagues across the country. In addition, District 11 has taken a proactive stance to utilizing improvement science through their partnership with iLead. We have been fortunate to be included in this process as a thought partner.
Our work is rooted in the mission of providing an equitable education for our students by actively pursuing their unlimited potential through affirming their racial and cultural identities. Each cycle of improvement is begun with promoting equity and addressing the disproportionality that our so many of our students experience. In this sense it is almost a misnomer to call this a partnership. Indeed, our work in closely intertwined with the goals of our Bronx equity work. In this light we have sought to marry equity initiaitives with improvement science.
Each specialist has experienced Beyond Diversity from Pacific Educational Group and has dug deep into the work of Dr. Eddie Fergus regarding disproprotionality and Risk Ratio Indexes.
It is a foundational principle that we are able to have difficult conversations that specifically address race and the many ways it impacts our students daily.
The work of the Bronx A.R.T. is part of the larger NYC DOE initiative from the Office of the First Deputy Chancellor. Our work is born out of the vision from the OFDC. We are a small peice of the larger work being done within the NYC Department of Ed and Bronx Borough Office. Central leadrship and each of the other ARTs across the DOE have been intergral leaders and thought partners in our formation and the ways in which we support our schools and students.
In addition to continuing our current work and model of support, our work with the Office of Leadership will be elevated as we begin a partnership to implement continious learning through improvement science and the ART process with their team in a number of schools throughout the Bronx.