Part I School Digital Module 11: Leverage Funding
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Learning Targets
- Align all funding/resource allocation to the Equity Non-Negotiables.
Current Practices Based on Common Assumptions and Equitable Best Practices
In Part 1 of the ICS Institute, we focus on Digital Modules 1-6 of Cornerstone 1 and then complete a brief overview of Cornerstones 2, 3, and 4.
In Part 2 of the ICS Institute, we briefly review Cornerstone 1, Digital Modules 1-6, checking in on the school/district implementation progress of those Digital Modules.
Part 2 then centers on Cornerstones 2 and 3, focusing on the formation and function of Co-Plan to Co-Serve to Co-Learn teams. In Part 2, we also go more deeply into the details of Digital Module 10, Align Resource Systems, and Digital Module 11, Leverage Funding (this Digital module).
The SLT will not facilitate Digital Module 11 with staff until the second half of the second year of the ICS implementation. The SLT will facilitate Digital Module 11 only after they have facilitated Digital Modules 1-10 preceding it.
For the Part 1 brief overview of Digital Module 11, and when facilitating Digital Module 11 with staff, the primary lesson is this:
After the DLT and SLT have gained an understanding of ICS via the 3-day Part 1 training, from that point forward, all professional learning options and curricular decisions and other funding/resource allocation decisions, as much as possible, should align with the ICS Equity Non-Negotiables.
This premise is critical to successful implementation–so critical that this district commitment is included in ICS/District partnership contracts.
Following the Part 1 Institute, the facilitation of the Digital Modules may not have begun with the DLT or by the SLT with staff. Or, perhaps only a few Digital Module facilitations have occurred. Still, the DLT and SLT know enough by this point to vet professional learning, curriculum, and resource adoption decisions against the Equity Non-Negotiables.
Especially at the District Leadership Team level, if impending decisions are being considered about curriculum adoption, curriculum materials, or professional learning, these decisions must ensure that they do not support, promote, encourage, or require students to be segregated.
In the Part II School Digital Module 11, SLTs and DLT will learn the details of how to leverage funding toward the district’s Equity Non-Negotiables.
For School Leadership Teams: In the ICS Equity Action Plan, table included in the Materials section of the Part I School Digital Module 0, discuss and write in the second to the last column, the current knowledge of staff related to this Digital Module such that the team can build on that knowledge when facilitating this Digital Module.
In the last column, write ways the School Leadership Team can build on this knowledge when facilitating the Digital Module. Also, the SLT can add what they want to remember/consider when facilitating this Digital Module and the next steps for the team to best prepare themselves to facilitate this Digital Module.