Where's It Happening? Trailblazing and Pioneer Initiatives

Louisiana

For the Louisiana design, click on the following:

• Addressing the Internal and External Barriers to Learning and Teaching: Louisiana's Comprehensive Learning Supports System

• Overview Brochure of the Louisiana Comprehensive Learning Supports System

• Student Learning and Support: Louisiana's Comprehensive Learning Supports System (Dept. of Education)

• Funding Stream Integration to Promote Development and Sustainability of a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

• A Progress Update 2011

• Learning Supports Facilitator Duties

Iowa

For the Iowa design, click on the following:

• Developing Our Youth: Fulfilling a Promise, Investing in Iowa's Future - Enhancing Iowa's Systems of Supports for Learning and Development

• Brief Summary

• Excerpts from the Executive Summary of an American Institutes for Research (AIR) evaluation that gathered data related to Iowa's first implementation steps.

• Learning Supports: AEA Coordinator's Role

• Learning Supports: Guide for Continuum Mapping

• Learning Supports: Accountability Framework

• Excerpts from the District Self Study Guide
  • Learning supports are coordinated to support the Iowa Core Curriculum
  • Continuum Mapping Tool and Resource Mapping Tool

• Excerpts from the Iowa CORE Curriculum: Self Study & Implementation Plan Handbook
  • Learning Supports are Coordinated to Support the Iowa Core Curriculum
  • Appendix A: Continuum Mapping Tool
  • To view the complete Self Study & Implementation Plan Handbook, click here

For more on Iowa's initiatives go to: the Learning Supports Initiative section of the Iowa Department of Education

Illinois

• Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

Ohio

• A Comprehensive System of Learning Supports Guidelines

• Student Success: A Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

• Ohio Dept. of Education website

• April 2012 Dept. of Education Webinar featuring presentation by UCLA Center
  • Dept. Webinar Intro Power Point
    
  • UCLA Center Power Point
    
  • Handouts

    Hawaii

    • About the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS)

    • Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) Brochure

    • Comprehensive Student Support Services Section, HI Dept. of Education

    • Legislation
    • 2012 System Impact Summit

  Tucson Unified School District

  For approximately 30 years, the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) has been under court supervision with regard to desegregation. As a fundamental facet of proactively addressing the problem, TUSD is committed to becoming a model 21st century urban school district that ensures every student has an equal opportunity to succeed at school. To these ends, the district has begun a process of developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports at its schools and has employed a cadre of Learning Supports Coordinators.

  As the district strives to fulfill the expectations laid out in it's Post Unitary Status Plan, it is moving to transform its student and learning support services into a comprehensive system of learning supports. They have adopted frameworks developed by the Center at UCLA and have hired change agents designated as Learning Supports Coordinators to facilitate the transformation. The Center is providing leadership training for moving the work forward.

  For a description of the work, see:

  • TUSD website

  • Learning Supports System Brochure

  • job description for the Learning Supports Coordinators

  For more information, contact:

  Maggie Shafer
  Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Schools
  Tucson Unified School District
  520.225.6304
  

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