Year One (2002-2003) Goals and Activities

Build communications lines between K-12 schools

• developed communication lines between previously autonomous K-12 schools in region
• established regular K-12 meetings
• emphasis on communicating levels perspective and developing cross-level relationships
• developing articulation by identifying gaps
• awareness change to attend to low achieving students

Develop learning community among staff K-12

• establish pattern of learning together, K-12
• administrators from all regional schools attended ASCD conference together
• attending same learning sessions
• building relationships (particularly with the many new administrators in the region)

Focus staff development on brain compatible learning

• focus of staff development (teachers and administrators) for year

Identify emerging teacher leaders and empower

• sent a regional administrator from each level as well as a teacher from elementary and middle levels to a major conference in Phoenix on brain compatible learning
• began developing a "trainer-of-trainers" model