Progress Report 2015
CONCLUSION
The Next Generation Leadership Academy
is positively impacting participating districts,
schools, and leaders in a number of ways.
Participation in the academy has spurred
innovation around next generation learning
across the state. The Academy was developed
to help leaders in school districts who were
ready for the shift to new models of learning,
but who needed help with the “how to.” The
leaders who have participated in the four
initial cohorts of the Academy overwhelming
credit their participation with helping them
move forward in creating student-centered
innovations in their schools and districts. In
addition to improved student outcomes,
NxGLA districts, students, teachers, and
leaders are more engaged as a result of their
work.
on project-based learning,
o
technology boot camps for
school administrators,
o
just-in-time support for
individual schools and districts
around NxGLA concepts; and
o
development of a
clearinghouse of trainers and
consultants who can augment
the availability and expertise of Next
Generation Leadership faculty to
customize support for schools and
districts.
The Next Generation Leadership Academy
has also made a lasting impact on UK’s
College of Education resulting in several
exciting spinoffs:
•
A teacher preparation redesign which
includes next generation learning at its core,
utilizing a clinical model that leverages UK’s
work in districts across the state;
•
a redesigned principal preparation
program in the UK College of Education’s
Department of Education Leadership Studies;
and
•
enhanced outreach efforts on the
part of the College to provide ongoing and
deeper professional development offerings
•
Over $533,000 in matching funds
raised toward this project;
•
$450,000 Planning and Challenge
Grant from the Next Generation Learning
Challenges for development of the STEAM
Academy in partnership with Fayette County
Public Schools;
•
$1,760,000 sub-award from the KY
Valley Education Cooperative to support next
generation training as part of their $30,000,000
Race to the Top District Grant called the
Appalachian Renaissance Initiative;
•
Over $4,200,000 in support to date
from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
for Kentucky schools and districts including:
o
summer institute on mastery
learning
and
standards-based
to launch and sustain UK’s National Center for
Innovation in Education which is facilitating
shifts to next generation learning across 13
grading,
o
a four-day summer institute
states.
Funding for the Next Generation Leadership
Academy has also leveraged additional
financial investments in next generation
learning in Kentucky including:
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