Leadership

Exploring What Education Can Learn from the Visual Arts

The Challenge 

The National Art Education Association teamed with Collaborative to coordinate and facilitate a summit of experts, practitioners, and decision makers in the art education field.

Our Approach 

Collaborative facilitated a three-day summit of art educators and advocates at the Aspen Institute in Colorado in August 2008 convened by the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Collaborative partnered with NAEA on the agenda development, selected readings for the summit's resource book and facilitated all the sessions.

Our Impact 

The summit was attended by leading visual artists, music advocates, policy-makers and experts in a range of academic subjects. They examined the importance of the visual arts to America. The group discussed visions for the future, values that guide the profession and strategies for making the general public appreciate all that the arts have to offer young people.

Date Added: Mar 12, 2010
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Principals Lead the Way for Universal Pre-K

The Challenge 

The National Association of Elementary School Principals' (NAESP) asked Collaborative to support its efforts to improve early childhood education by creating advocacy tools for NAESP's Leading Early Learning: Principals as Champions for Pre-K Initiative.

Our Approach 

The Collaborative team researched national and state-specific pre-K issues and created fact sheets, letters to the editor and op-eds tailored to three states in which strong pre-K efforts are already underway—Arkansas, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Our team also conducted interviews with principals in each of these three states and, based on these discussions, drafted a series of testimonials in support of universal pre-K. These materials are available through a special pre-K Web page—designed by Collaborative—located on NAESP’s Web site.

Our Impact 

As a result of Collaborative’s tireless work, these advocacy tools are used to help principals become pre-K advocates and are a vital component in the effort to change the role of elementary school principals in children’s education.

Date Added: Mar 12, 2010
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Redefining the Role of a Principal: Leading Learning Communities Series

The Challenge 

The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), a leader in advocacy and support for elementary and middle level principals, partnered with Collaborative to develop Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do, Second Edition. This new version, updating and expanding the original that Collaborative developed for NAESP in 2001, was released in April 2008 at NAESP's national convention in Nashville, TN. The Leading Learning Communities standards build upon those outlined in 2001, with a strong focus on the extensive changes in society and education that have occurred over the last seven years. In an era of intense accountability, an increasingly global society and rapid changes in technology.

Our Approach 

Collaborative worked with NAESP to revise the guidebook using the most recent and relevant research, trends, tools and information available. In tandem, Collaborative created a landmark publication for NAESP titled, Vision 2021: Transformations in Leading, Learning and Community that explores these trends and paints a vivid picture of the future of learning. Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do, Second Edition, can be ordered from NAESP. Collaborative also created the Leading Learning Communities Executive Summary, which can be downloaded for free off the NAESP homepage.

Our Impact 

The national education newspaper, Education Week, provided coverage on NAESP’s release of this new edition of Leading Learning Communities and of Vision 2021. Read the article, Principals’ Group Updates Standards for Leadership, published April 9, 2008. Together, these guidebooks form the Leading Learning Communities series, a series that continues to expand the horizon for principals while providing these leaders with the support they need.

Date Added: Mar 12, 2010
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Developing an Online Community for Elementary School Principals

The Challenge 

The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) needed to launch a new and improved Web site. This site was meant to be the online community of practice for principals across the nation.

Our Approach 

Collaborative served as the lead project manager, designed the look and feel, developed intuitive navigation, and helped to create inviting and user-friendly content for the new Web site. In part due to Collaborative’s extensive relationship with NAESP, as well as the firm’s strategic communications work, the site focuses on aligning programs and practices of the Association with the real needs of the membership—ultimately creating a visually engaging and content-rich Web site. The basis for the main navigation is an off-shoot of the Leading Learning Communities series — the landmark standards publications that Collaborative has developed in partnership with NAESP over the past seven years.

Our Impact 

The Web site’s look and feel is a product of Collaborative’s careful positioning and branding of the organization. Earlier in 2008, Collaborative helped NAESP create a new logo that would honor the Association’s upcoming 100th anniversary. Using the foundation of the logo development—a focus on energy and timeliness—the new Web site honors the past, grounds NAESP in the present and helps the organization look to the future.

Date Added: Mar 12, 2010
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A New Day for Schools: The Expanded Learning Time Summit

The Challenge 

Collaborative teamed up with Massachusetts 2020 and the Massachusetts Department of Education to manage A New Day for Schools: The Expanded Learning Time Summit.

Our Approach 

Collaborative oversaw the Expanded Learning Time Summit’s logistical needs and catering, disseminated invitations and a post-summit evaluation, coordinated the online and on-site registration processes, and managed the design process and agenda and materials development.

Our Impact 

The one-day summit brought together principals, teachers and educators to join in conversations on the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative. This meeting demonstrates Collaborative’s continued experience with developing and hosting meetings for educational endeavors across the country.

Date Added: Mar 12, 2010
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