Cambridge Education

Lead Turnaround Partner- uniquely qualified

• Since 2002 our team has led and managed projects in over 100 districts across 24 states and worked in over 3,000 schools in the US

• Our wide range of research-based strategies, which are customized for every school, include:

- quality reviews and classroom climate surveys

- comprehensive school improvement programs

- strategic leadership development programs

- embedded professional development

Success for all our students

Transformational change - worldwide

• In 2000, UK Government invited Cambridge Education to provide education support services to the London Borough of Islington

• It was the lowest performing district in the UK

• In one year The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) noted rapidly transformed relationships with schools

• In 2000, 13 of Islington’s schools were judged by Ofsted to either be in need of special measures, or to have serious weaknesses

• In 2009 Islington had no schools in special measures or with a notice to improve and 82% of schools were judged good or better by Ofsted, more than one in five had an outstanding rating

  

Inner -city girls: Michelle Obama left feeling 'really inspired'

Michelle Obama gives a pupil a high-five during a visit to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in London

In 2009 when Michelle Obama visited a school in the UK she selected the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington.

Raising Student Achievement

Strong District Leadership/

Organizational Capacity

Strong School Leadership/ Organizational Capacity

Achievement, as measured by tests, grades, competencies, attitudes and behaviors, educational attainment, employment, citizenship, etc.

Engaged Students High quality teaching and learning

Involved Familiesand Communities

Transformational Alternatives

Cambridge Education provides high quality services and solutions to meet the individual needs of our clients at national, state, district and school level.

We:

Listen, attentively, as every situation is different

Review the climate of the school /district /state which enables us to effectively scope the project

Identify what will work and what will not

Develop customized solutions using some key components but developing new ones as required.

Evaluate success, refining, adapting and testing.

Cambridge Education

Founded in 1983, Cambridge Education is a member of the Mott Macdonald Group.

Cambridge Education currently supports education in 24 US states and over 45 countries around the world.

It’s the sheer diversity of our work that makes us unique

Multisector

Cambridge Education

Setting world class standards

Channel Tunnel – UK

Education Sector Support Program in Nigeria

Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) – Malaysia

Cambridge Education in the US

We partner with states, regional service centers, districts and schools.

Diagnostic evaluations

Over 4,000 District and School reviews in the US since 2002

The Tripod Project – Measures of teaching quality and classroom conditions through teacher and student surveys

School Improvement Programs

School Improvement Planning

Leadership Development

Effective Classroom Observation

The Motivated Classroom

Teacher Professional Growth and Evaluation

Strong Client Base in the US

In addition to local public education funding 25 national and local foundations currently directly or indirectly fund CEU’s work

California • State (Charter Schools)• Districts (Oakland, Pomona, Sacramento City)

Colorado • State ( Low Performing Schools• Districts ( Adams 50, Denver)

Florida • Teacher Effectiveness – coaching and mentoring 686 administrators, mentors and peers • Beginning Teachers Induction program – training and coaching mentors

Minnesota • Minneapolis -schools Quality Review + SIP• District Special needs review • Phased intervention for low performing schools• Teacher Evaluation – Pilot for 64 administrators, mentors and peers

New Jersey • Newark Quality Reviews and School Action Planning for all schools• Pilot School Improvement Program for 3 schools

New York City • Quality reviews all 1400+ schools• Leadership training - Pilot with 30 schools• School improvement - Pilot with 10 schools• Trpod surveys

North Carolina • State (40+ failing districts)• New Schools Project (Gates) 100 schools• Charlotte- Mecklenburg all 80 schools

Human Capacity Development

One of our core principles is to expand the capacity of all organization we work with.

Expanding leadership capacity and professional development is the critical issue facing states, districts, CMOs and schools today.

In order to leverage and sustain improvement, schools will need to: find ways to strengthen teaching and learning, expand and improve professional development, utilize data to inform and improve instruction, and engage stakeholders.

Through a reflective and ethical balancing of priorities focused on improving student achievement for all students in order to secure a viable 21st century and beyond

Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP)

New York City 10 K through 8 schools and 4 High Schools 3 Charter Schools

Minneapolis 10 schools (all phases)

Newark 3 K through 8 pilot schools

ISDE (Indiana) 32 low performing schools

Islington (UK) 60+ schools 10 year transformation from the lowest performing LEA in UK to the top 20% - top 5% for SPED

Transformational Activities

• Scope the situation – agree and implement customized solutions

• Change the school culture – coach leadership for sustainable change

• Establish collaborative leadership - engage stakeholders at all levels

• SMART analysis of the data – system of individual feedback to students

• Develop instructional leadership – provide effective feedback and develop staff

• Promote high quality teaching and learning - in every classrooms

• Improve administrative team skills – leadership and management

• Build the knowledge base, skills and understanding - for every student

• Develop the school culture - celebrate success

• Raise achievement – every child matters

Real schools – real solutions and real outcomes

• Principals survive• Staff improve• Students grow academically and socially• Scores go up• Goals are achieved (AYP and beyond )• Teams are created• Assessment for learning • Culture changes• Real growth

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Standards & assessments: Emerging priorities

Develop curricula and instructional supports aligned with common standards

• Solutions to support districts, e.g.,

- Software to help create local curricula

- Model curriculum maps

- Model course syllabi

Supportbenchmark and formative assessments

• ELA and Math benchmark assessments administered periodically

• Formative assessment resources available for customized use at the school and class level

• Series of professional development courses to support effective use of benchmark and formative assessments

High school programs and incentives for college and career readiness

• Expand opportunities for Early College High Schools through partnerships with community colleges

• Expand the opportunities for AP, IB, and other rigorous college-ready programs, particularly in low performing high schools

• Activate the Certificate of Mastery and Certificate of Occupational Proficiency

Make enhancements to State Curriculum and Assessment Standards

• Align State standards with with Common Core of Standards (in development)

• Migrate State Standards online with next-generation functionality

• Develop performance tasks in strategic areas

• Continue to improve reporting tools to inform instruction (e.g., student growth data)

School turnaround: Emerging priorities

Build district leadership capacity

Build and disseminate turnaround tools

Identify and scale up third-party supports

Develop cadre of turnaround teachers and principals

Identify and incubate lead partners

E.g.:

• Supporting effective collaboration between superintendents, union leaders, and school committees

E.g.:

• Learning Walks

• Benchmark and formative assessments

E.g.:

• Residency, induction, training models to develop teachers and principals

• Incentives for school, team, and teacher performance

E.g.:

• Lead partners to work in LEVEL 4 schools

E.g.:

• Essential Conditions, including social/ behavioral supports

• Alternative school transformation

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Pilot district evaluation and P.D. models that incorporate measures of effectiveness

Identify, pilot and scale innovative models to recruit, prepare and develop teachers and leaders

Teachers & leaders: Emerging priorities

Define and assess teacher and leader effectiveness via multiple measures, anchored in student achievement

Develop a performance-based, tiered licensure system for teachers and leaders

Develop and pilot new models for compensation and equitable distribution

Identify and develop turnaround leaders and teacher teams for chronically low-performing schools

Use effectiveness measures as the foundation to drive additional initiatives

Address equitable distribution and turnaround strategies through incentives, improved conditions, leadership, and capacity development

• Work with districts and national experts to develop multi-dimensional approaches to define and measure effectiveness

• Pilot promising recruitment and prep programs, focusing on diversity and STEM/ ESL/ SPED teachers

• Support innovative high quality pathways to teaching & leading

• Monitor impact and effectiveness of educator prep programs; use results to inform approval

• Enhance performance assessment at the initial level license

• Explore portfolio-based measures of effectiveness for the professional level license

• Develop licensure framework that supports district career ladders

• Incorporate measures of effectiveness into evaluation and PD policies at state level and district-based practices

• Pilot peer coaching/ mentoring to support struggling teachers

• Support integrated human capital management pilots (including induction) that build capacity and focus on continuous improvement

• Pilot new approaches to compensation for teaching in hard to staff schools

• Create differentiated roles, responsibilities and career ladder pilots

• Create reward programs for schools, teams or teachers with improvement in student performance

• Recruit and develop effective teachers, leaders, and teams to help turn around under-performing schools and districts

• Provide add’l mentoring and professional development focused on school turnaround

Teachers & leaders: Emerging priorities

Measures of effectiveness

Recruitment, prep and development

Performance-based tiered licensure

Evaluation/ P.D./induction models

Compensation and equitable distribution

Turnaround teacher and leader teams

Our Programs and Services

Effective Classroom Observation

The Tripod Project

• Operated by Cambridge Education through a partnership with Ron

Ferguson of Harvard University

• Committed to strengthening all three legs of the Tripod

Content, Pedagogy, and Relationships

• Uses student and teacher surveys to collect data and analyze school

climate, classroom conditions, and student engagement

• Provides the Tripod Project’s conceptual framework to support school

improvement efforts

ContentWhat should we

teach? Does each teacher have deep knowledge of the

curriculum?

PedagogyHow should we teach? Does each teacher use effective instructional techniques?

RelationshipsAre we a community? Do

students and teachers care about, inspire, and motivate

each other?

Academic Success for all Students

Improved student performance depends on strengthening three legs of an

instructional tripod:

21st Century Skills - Personalization by Pieces

PbyP provides a structure by which learners set their own targets and then choose how to complete their work and provide evidence of their achievement.

The PbyP model supports learners to assess and mentor each other as they work towards their goals.

Professional Development, an example, the Motivated Classroom Program

Building Effective PLCs, an example,The Common Priorities Program

Discover(open our minds andbehaviors to spot the

opportunities)

Deepen(Evaluate and choose

the opportunities)

Develop(Vision & Plan )

Deliver(Establish the

enterprise) Results … continue to assessthe needs of the community and adapt to meet those needs

Improvingthe

school

Mobilize(the

stakeholders)

School Improvement Planning

Contact Information

Trevor Yates Gail McLean

Executive Vice- President Vice-President

Hanover, PA Westwood, MA

Cell: 717 701 0123 Cell: 781 690 7717

Email: Email:

trevor.yates@camb-ed-us.com gail.mclean@camb-ed-us.com

www.camb-ed-us.com

Who is Mott MacDonald?

One of the world’s largest management, engineering and development consultancies

Employee owned: 2009 $1.6 b revenue

Multinational

We work in over 140 countries

From 200 permanent offices

On some 16,000 projects

What we do

We use our worldwide resources and experience to:

Help shape and implement development policies and programs

It’s the sheer diversity of our work that makes us unique

Multisector

Cambridge Education

Cork

Lisbon

Croydon

Tripoli

Kampala

Almaty

Maseru

Bangkok

Singapore

HongKong

Jakarta

ShanghaiLahore

Dhaka

DohaAbu Dhabi

Muscat

Boston

Taipei

BucharestSofia

PragueBuffalo

Dubai

PleasantonPittsburgh

Cairo

Jeddah

KualaLumpur

Sydney

New York

MississaugaSeattleVancouver

San Diego

Millburn

Calgary

Montreal

Mumbai

New Delhi

St Petersburg

Manila

Dublin

Beijing

BahrainNassau

Phnom PenhAddis Ababa

Budapest

Lagos

WarsawMoscow

Barcelona

Port of Spain

Santiago

AlbanyCleveland

Akron

Houston Cape MayCrestview

Freehold

Mobile

Monroe

Panama CityPensacola

Portland

ProvoSacramento

Shenzhen

Mysore

ShymkentKyzlorda

Port Harcourt

Stavanger

SakhalinSurgut

Johannesburg

AnkaraIstanbulTashkent

Caracas

Kuwait

Utrecht

Belgrade

Kiev

Los AngelesSan Jose

Principal offices

What unites us all

Vision

To be the consultant of choice in our global market place

Mission

Providing customer satisfactionThrough professional excellenceGiving commercial successand employee fulfilment

ProgressRespectIntegrityDriveExcellence

What unites us all

Serving our customers

The positive attitude, engagement and commitment demonstrated by you during the execution of the NaturalGas demand in East India project have exceeded our expectations.

Rahul MishraMarket Fundamentals Manager

British Gas India

Corporate citizenship

We’re helping our local and global communities around the world

Engineers for Overseas Development, Uganda

Visiting schools worldwide

Multisectoral HIV and AIDS Programme, South Africa

Providing permanent water supplies, Aceh Indonesia