- Lincoln Public School District
- Partnerships
The Highlander Institute
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Lincoln Public Schools and The Highlander Institute are in year 3 of a partnership around blended and personalized learning. Our goal is to continue to build the work around blended and personalized learning to improve engagement, provide rigorous standards based content, address diverse learning needs and modalities, and to improve student outcomes. The Highlander Institute is an educational non-profit organization focused on researching, developing, and disseminating innovative methods to improve outcomes for all learners.
Mike Miele is the Educational Strategies Specialist who will be working with educators during the 2017-2018 school year. Mike and Highlander began their work with Lincoln during the 2016-2017 school year working with 9 educators at Northern Elementary School, Saylesville Elementary School, and Lincoln Middle School. This year that number has expanded to 41 educators across all 4 elementary schools and the middle school.
Teachers involved in the blended learning cohort receive professional development and personalized embedded support around blended and personalized learning. This embedded support consists of building context, co-planning and co-teaching blended lessons, as well as providing teachers with observations and feedback. The Highlander Institute and LPS are committed to providing exceptional, professional and consistent coaching supports with clear and transparent communication and frequent touch-points to assess the impact of the work.
For more information about the highlander Institute please follow the link below.
East Bay Educational Collaborative (EBEC)
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Lincoln has been collaborating with EBEC for several years to provide high quality, rigorous, standards based elementary science kits and professional development. They have also been working collaboratively with our high school teachers as well as other high school teachers in the area on curriculum
Lincoln High School is part of the newest Cohort III for the Office of Naval Research Grant Opportunity! These high school teams of teachers will be joining our other 24 high school teacher teams to “Improve the STEM Pipeline” with our new state of the art Essential Physics & Engineering STEM program
Each team will receive:
- 100 Essential Physics Program eBooks* for physics & engineering that includes interactive simulations, manipulative virtual lab investigations!
- Six fully equipped “hands-on” lab stations for this new STEM Physics-Engineering program included for Optics; Electrical Circuits; Forces & Machines Engineering; Oscillations & Waves; and much more!
- One classroom set of hard copy texts!
- Six Ergobot Interactive Robotic Dynamic Motion Apparatus (Programmable) for each classroom that can be used in mathematics classes as well!
- Each teacher participating will receive a $500.00 stipend upon completion of training and data requests.
The East Bay Educational Collaborative (EBEC) is a non-profit educational support agency offering Professional Development services in all academic areas at all levels.
More Partnerships
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Family Literacy Center
Our mission is to empower children, young adults, and their families to enhance the quality of their lives through education, support, advocacy, and opportunity. We accomplish this through appropriate neighborhood-based services.
Our vision is to put books into the hands of children to encourage them and their parents to read. We accomplish this by offering a friendly, community environment where kids and their parents can come to check out books, do homework, play games, and work on crafts.
Our history began when the FLC opened its doors in 2002. The FLC was originally funded by a Rhode Island Education Reading Grant. After the grant expired, the Lincoln School Department and the Town of Lincoln began funding the program. As of July 2010, the Center became funded solely by the Town of Lincoln and fundraising efforts. We now have over 12,000 books on our shelves, and more than 2300 members.
The FLC provides:
- Access to a collection of quality, age appropriate, learning tools for students and their families (books, computers, CD players, etc)
- Homework help for students in grades 5 through 12
- Daily snack after school
- Parenting programs
- Self-esteem programs
- Teen and adult economic growth programs
- Self-improvement educational opportunity programs
For more information about the Family Literacy Center please follow the link.
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National Institute for School Leadership
Principals along with their leadership teams and teacher leaders joined hands with the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) to learn about instructional coaching. Within the context of education, NISL defines coaching as a relationship in which a principal or teacher guides others through a reflective, inquiry-based, and performance-centered process to help him or her rapidly improve and sustain high levels of performance. This includes academic growth for students as well as personal and professional growth for those with whom they work.
Funded by a RIDE leadership mini-grant, all schools participated and crafted a learning plan unique to their school. Participants assessed their level of readiness to become coaches and reviewed the NISL coaching assumptions and competencies. The Mutual Learning Cycle© was introduced along with the Principles of Learning and Key Practices for Deeper Learning based on the latest research from the National Research Council, How People Learn. Participants practiced and have been applying the five core coaching skills: listening, questioning, observing, giving and receiving feedback, and reflecting. Well-equipped “instructional coaches” kicked off this school year with their colleagues by providing a professional learning day aligned to the needs, goals and vision of their school. They have continued the work throughout the year via team meetings, department meetings, professional learning communities, and staff meetings. A survey was recently given to all LPS staff and the results showed there is growing enthusiasm for the work and many want to learn more. With increased collaboration among and within the schools, as well as a deeper understanding of how people learn, adults and children, everyone in LPS is a student of learning…learning with and through others.
For more information about NISL please follow the link below.
