1. 10/2007AEIN Overview Alaska Educational Innovations Network

2. 10/2007AEIN Overview: Photo by RadioSpike Photography BHAG ( big, hairy, audacious goal)

3. 10/2007AEIN Overview The Innovation Ultimately, the AEIN partnership is working together, through reflective professional learning, to create an interdependent network, focused on student learning, underpinned by culturally responsive teaching and data-informed decision- making.

4. 10/2007AEIN Overview Alaska Educational Innovations Network Build stronger teaching & learning communities Create quality distance-delivered formats for preservice & inservice Develop networked mentoring/induction Expand leadership Support culturally responsive teaching

5. 10/2007AEIN Overview Higher Ed Partnership Grant 5 years (with 6th year no cost extension) $9.3 million to share 9 partner districts COE, CAS, Kodiak, & Kenai GCI, Avant Garde, NEA/AK, AEA

6. 10/2007AEIN Overview Assumptions Everyone is a learner, teacher, & leader Community begins at home. Smarter educators help all students become smarter All of us are smarter than any one of us People learn better in culturally responsive environments Improving education for all is possible, but will take time, patience, and new learning

7. 10/2007AEIN Overview Moving forward…. Year 4…2 to go View to sustainability Shift to more balanced partnership Work plan for the future Resource allocations

8. 10/2007AEIN Overview And…. What this doesn’t mean….

9. 10/2007AEIN Overview The October NSA Outcome: –Participants will develop tangible and useful logic models for their own contexts.

10. 10/2007AEIN Overview Today at NSA By the end of the day: –Participants will understand logic models –Participants will explain the relationships in the systems iceberg model. –School leaders will use and examine processes designed to develop professional community.

11. The Logic Model A Framework for Planning & Adjusting

12. 10/2007AEIN Overview

13. 10/2007AEIN Overview Only 15.5 miles today!

14. 10/2007AEIN Overview We Made It!

15. 10/2007AEIN Overview What Was the Logic Model? What is the difference between my ideal and my current reality? What steps would help me meet my goal? –(no pun intended)