In addition to school districts, ICS provides a custom-designed ICS Framework and Process in partnership with professional associations, state departments of education, regional service agencies, and university leadership preparation programs.
ICS partners with national and state professional associations in high quality teaching and learning academies for their members. For example, the Wisconsin Association for School District Administrators (WASDA) partnered with ICS to deliver the High Quality Teaching and Learning Academy for District Leadership Teams. ICS custom designed the virtual academy over 8 mornings over an academic year from 8:30-12:00 p.m., that included ICS digital modules exclusively for Academy participants. The event featured district leadership teams from across the state who were guest speakers at each session to describe how they successfully implemented each ICS step in the process districtwide and shared the resulting positive data outcomes from ICS implementation.
ICS partners with state departments of education to advance high quality teaching and learning for all students to eliminate educational disparities across the entire state.
For example, the state of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction partnered with ICS to provide an opportunity for districts to apply for state funding to implement the ICS framework and process. ICS developed customized ICS digital modules for participating districts, and provided coaching for regional coaches in support of the work. As with all their partnerships, ICS provided unlimited support via Zoom and email to the department and participating districts to address questions throughout the partnership.
ICS partners with state regional service agencies who host the ICS Equity Framework and Process work for districts in their regions that can become revenue generating for the regional agencies. The regional service agency hosts the Introduction to ICS 3-day Institute to introduce the work to district teams. The regional service agency then hosts the three-year ICS partnership for interested districts that includes the ICS Part 1 and Part 2 Institutes and partners with ICS for district equity coaching. Regional office staff become internal facilitators of the ICS process.
ICS partners with university leadership preparation programs in principal preparation and district leadership preparation. Universities adopt the ICS School Level modules for a course in the principal preparation program and adopt the ICS District Level Modules for a course in the district leadership/superintendency program. The ICS Digital Modules for leadership preparation includes the Power Point slides for each module, all activities and handouts for each module, and three learning quizzes at the end of each module. These learning quizzes ask students to reflect on their reading of the module, assess their understanding of module learning targets, and support students to apply the learning targets to their leadership practice. The modules provide a complete learning package for the instructor and leadership students to learn how to transform their schools and districts to maximize learning for all students.
ICS provides a completely customized presentation for any organization seeking a high energy and inspirational keynote presentation. Our equity keynotes spotlight steps within the ICS Equity Framework and Process and how the ICS systems change approach can advance the organization’s mission and goals.
The ICS Keynote presentations are utilized to raise interest, build momentum, energy, and enthusiasm through the understanding of the historical significance of marginalization and how this historical marginalization impacts our organizational policies and practices, and in turn, proactive steps to advance equity systems change in the entire organization.
We begin our keynote preparation with a conversation with the organization to learn about the organization’s mission and goals and how the keynote can advance the work of the organization. We learn any unique aspects of the organization’s context that we need to take into account when developing the keynote that will have the greatest positive impact.
Akin to the best of improv, we can take any conference theme and fire it up in ways that extend conference participants’ thinking and action related to the theme. Our completely customized ICS Equity Workshops or conference session presentations will extend, deepen, and build upon your conference theme. The sessions are highly interactive and we provide examples of district’s engaged in the work. Participants will be able to take the activities and examples back to their own schools and districts for immediate application.
At ICS, we are committed to creating proactive systems that develop staff capacity to yield high-quality learning for all students. Our services provide the blueprint to transform schools and districts to maximize student learning. Join us in this journey and prepare the next generation for success.