2. How to Benefit from Charter Schools in Rural WI

3. How to Benefit from Charter Schools in Rural WI
A charter school can provide options for students and teachers, functioning as an additional tool in serving all students; it can be a lab of innovation, and a place of learning new practices for everyone

4. How to Benefit from Charter Schools in Rural WI
How does it all work?
Is a charter right for your community?
How do you leverage this opportunity in your area?
How can WRCCS help?

5. How does it all work?

6. How does it all work?
Chartering simply means that there is a contract between an authorizer and a school’s governance board to create and operate a school that functions under a specific model, though it must meet traditional measures of success.
Chartering allows a student to attend the charter school at no additional cost to the family.
All WI School Districts are able to serve as charter school authorizers (virtual or traditional schools). In the case of a district-authorized charter school, the state funds go through the district to the charter.
Independent charter school authorizers are able to serve as authorizers throughout the state now (not virtual schools). In the case of an independently authorized charter school, the state funds go directly to the charter.
DPI is currently offering grant funds to support the start-up of charter schools over the next 5 years

7. Is a charter right for your community?

8. Is a charter right for your community?
What are some needs in our community?
Survey
Data
Community conversations
What are some ways we could address those needs?
Minor tweaks to instruction/schedule/etc. across the district
Minor tweaks to instruction/schedule/etc. in one focused niche of the district
Charter or magnet school

9. How do you leverage this opportunity for your area?

10. How do you leverage this opportunity for your area?
Develop a planning team
Survey community and develop initial plan
Choose an authorizer/ Apply to authorizer
Write a DPI charter grant
Plan/
Do PD/
Implement design

11. How can WRCCS help?

12. Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools
WRCCS (“works”)
Statewide center housed within CESA 9
Funded through federal grant awarded to the DPI to strengthen the charter school system in the state and improve student learning
Serves to provide technical assistance to individuals or organizations around charter school development
Resources are available to all charter and non-charter schools.

13. Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools
WRCCS (“works”)
Build a continuous warehouse of resources and awareness of the needs and strengths of WI Charters.
Cultivate relationships among schools and facilitate sharing of practices.

14. Partners

15. Partners Boardman & Clark Law BoardOnTrack CESA 9 CMS 4 Schools Edio
EdVisions
Innovative Schools Network (ISN)
Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL)
Ready to Blend
Schools That Can Milwaukee (STCM)
University of Kansas
Wisconsin Digital Learning Collaborative (WDLC)
Wisconsin Association of Schools Boards (WASB)
Wisconsin E-Schools Network (WEN)
Wisconsin Green Schools Network (WGSN)

16. Priorities

17. Priorities English language learners special education students
economically disadvantaged students
racial/ethnic minority students
rural schools
school climate
mental health
family/ community engagement
online & blended learning
discipline
students
school communities
classrooms

18. Audience

19. Audience authorizers governance boards charter school leaders
charter school classrooms
Audience

20. Technical
Assistance

21. Technical Assistance WRCCS Supports Schools 1:1 Consulting
Resource Warehouse
Annual Conference
WRCCS
Supports
Schools
Technical
Assistance
Professional Dev Trainings
Charter Schools Yearbook
Mentor Program

22. Free WRCCS PD LIVE ZOOM BUZZ
Professional Dev Trainings
Free WRCCS PD
LIVE
ZOOM
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23. Professional Dev Trainings
Free WRCCS PD
ZOOM

24. Professional Dev Trainings
Free WRCCS PD
LIVE

25. Professional Dev Trainings
Free WRCCS PD
BUZZ

26. Resource Warehouse

27. Resource Warehouse

28. Charter Schools Yearbook

29. Charter Schools Yearbook

30. Charter Schools Yearbook

31. Let’s Connect!

32. Let’s Connect! Sarah Hackett, Director Web – wrccs.org
Facebook – Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools
Twitter
LinkedIn – Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools
Phone – –
Let’s Connect!