schools for every child in New Orleans.
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teachNOLA
New Schools for New Orleans' teacher recruitment program, teachNOLA, was developed with the support of The New Teacher Project and the Recovery School District. This highly selective initiative recruits the nation's most outstanding certified teachers, recent college graduates, and career changers to become teachers in New Orleans. High quality teachers are statistically proven to be the single most important factor in student achievement. By bringing a critical mass of highly qualified teachers to New Orleans, teachNOLA and The New Teacher Project are instrumental partners in the success of New Orleans schools and thus the success of the School Investment Fund.
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Teach For America
New Schools for New Orleans has recently become the first local partner of Teach For America's School Leadership Initiative. This initiative will establish an official recruitment pipeline linking Teach For America alumni to New Schools for New Orleans new school incubation efforts. Teach For America currently recruits from some of our nation's best universities - with this partnership, New Schools for New Orleans will be able to tap into the best of Teach For America's talent pool, which will go a long way in ensuring the excellence of the next cadre of new New Orleans schools.
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New Leaders for New Schools
NSNO's partnership with New Leaders for New Schools is vital to our success. Past experience has demonstrated that weak school leaders almost always fail in implementing national best practices. In order for NSNO's services to be successful, it must work with school leaders who share the same core beliefs and have the talent to implement best practices. NSNO will therefore look to New Leaders for New Schools to ensure high academic achievement for every child by developing and supporting outstanding leaders and the schools that they lead in New Orleans. Additionally, NSNO believes it can increase the efficacy of the New Leaders for New Schools program, providing local context for placement decisions and opening training and support to New Leaders residents before and after placement.
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Building Excellent Schools
New Schools for New Orleans and Building Excellent Schools are working together to increase the number of excellent charter schools opening each year in New Orleans. Through this partnership, New Schools for New Orleans will assist Building Excellent Schools in the selection, training, and developement of new fellows working to found outstanding charter schools in New Orleans.
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Walton Family Foundation
Recently, the Walton Family Foundation has added New Orleans as a target district of its Public Charter School and Startup Grants Initiative. Through this grant program, qualified, newly opening charter schools will be eligible for significant planning and start-up grants. New Schools for New Orleans will partner with the Walton Family Foundation to select top-tier charter school leaders as the recipients of this grant award.
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Charter School Business Management
New Schools for New Orleans recognizes the reason many charter schools fail is due to mismanagement of finances and operations. In an effort to prevent this from occurring in schools in New Orleans, New Schools for New Orleans has developed a strategic partnership with Charter School Business Management, the leader in developing and maintaining a strong foundation of finance, operations, human resources and compliance at charter schools around the country. CSBM has a team of former business and operations leaders of successful charter schools, who professionally develop, train and recruit staff members of new schools. This partnership will allow school leaders to remain focused on what's most important - student achievement.
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Massachusetts Public School Performance
Massachusetts Public School Performance (MPSP) and New Schools for New Orleans will work together during the 2008-2009 school year to develop a comprehensive, data-driven program for schools. A leader in innovative school performance solutions, MPSP will be an essential partner in helping NSNO build the capacity of school leaders to use real-time assessment data to improve instruction and increase student achievement.
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Meetinghouse Solutions
In an effort to create sustainable schools that focus on delivering academic success for every student, New Schools for New Orleans has developed a strategic partnership with Meetinghouse Solutions, a national expert in creating and training effective charter school boards. Meetinghouse Solutions founder, Marci Cornell-Feist, has been working with NSNO since it’s inception to launch, train and support open-enrollment charter school boards and their leaders across the city.
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Nancy Euske
Nancy Euske is a continuing lecturer at the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business. At Berkeley, she specializes in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations. New Schools for New Orleans has contracted with Nancy to conduct school leadership training for developing charter schools that focuses on cultural and organizational management leadership.
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Algiers Charter Schools Association
As the largest operator of charter schools in New Orleans, Algiers represents a significant presence in the city. We work closely with the Association on efforts to ensure that the legal and policy environment maximizes accountability and autonomy for charter schools in New Orleans. We support the Associations efforts to build combined school support strategies that can benefit schools citywide.
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Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP)
Both nationally and locally, KIPP has proven to be an influential player in the work of New Schools for New Orleans. During New Schools for New Orleans' 2007 start-up trainings, KIPP New Orleans was a lead school partner, providing operations and finance coaching and site visit opportunities for 8 new schools. In the spring of 2007, KIPP New York hosted 5 school leaders in site visits focused on developing solid and consistent school culture. Lastly, KIPP's new Director of Data-Driven Instruction for New Orleans will be a part of New Schools for New Orleans' inaugural assessment development project.
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Louisiana Charter School Association
Dormant since Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Charter School Association (LCSA) was revived in June of 2007 when the Board of Directors recommitted to the goal of providing quality public education to all children in Louisiana. In August, Matt Candler, CEO of New Schools for New Orleans, joined as its vice president, providing valuable charter school knowledge and leadership to the association. The LCSA is focused on building a statewide organization with the political capacity and reach to be an effective voice for the charter school movement. NSNO is providing considerable strategic support to the association in close coordination with the Walton Family Foundation and the National Alliance for Charter Schools. The association's new executive director splits time between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where she operates in the office of NSNO.
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Recovery School District
New Schools for New Orleans has developed a strong relationship with the Recovery School District, which is leading the nation in pioneering effective and efficient district governance. New Schools for New Orleans meets monthly with key RSD leaders to discuss the various needs of charter schools and to help sustain an environment that is conducive to the growth of excellent public schools.
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SOSNOLA
SOS NOLA was founded by public school parents to help ensure every child has access to high quality public schools in New Orleans. SOS NOLA works toward this goal by supporting parents and citizens as decision-making partners and leaders in the rebuilding process, providing accessible and up-to-date information about public schools to the community, conducting research on the conditions, policies, funding and plans for public education, and advocacy. SOS NOLA’s website provides an increasing collection of research, news articles, reports, and upcoming meetings related to public education, along with a dynamic database which provides current information for each public school including contact information, admissions criteria, interactive map, school demographics, programs, special education services, student performance data, and school facilities.
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School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans
The mission of the School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans (SLC) is to improve schools by inspiring and developing courageous leadership among principals and other educators, based on academic insight, reflective practice and collegial networking, thereby advancing student achievement and stimulating public support. SLC places principals in public, private and parochial schools in a five-parish area: Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Tammany and Plaquemines. Though SLC's focus is not limited to public charter schools, the SLC, Scott Cowen Institute, and New Schools for New Orleans all work together to: advocate for resources, equity, and responsiveness for charter schools; provide accurate information on charter schools; and promote accountability, best practices, and research for charter schools.
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The Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives
New Schools for New Orleans' goal is to craft a new framework for public school reform-one rooted in the principles of success common to the very best autonomous urban public schools in the country. Our intense focus on the inner workings of schools will position us to act quickly on our detailed observations of in-school needs. However, New Orleans is also in need of system-level efforts that can work in concert with our focus on school quality. The Cowen Institute's work in policy analysis and best practice research in school operations and governance are imperative to the development of successful public schools. By actively using research to influence educational policy and practice, our partnership will lend itself to true system-wide reform for all public schools in New Orleans.