Leadership Development Programs 2024-2025

Lift

Program Duration: One Year
Program Manager: K. Celeste Murray
Participants: Teachers with 1-5 years of teaching experience in NM
Number of Participants Served: 100 teachers and 50 Performance Coaches

Program Overview

Lift has been designed to support and empower early-career teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools by sharing strategies to establish foundational practices that help early-career teachers experience successful instruction.

First year teachers are eligible to participate; however, the work with Lift is not intended to replace the mentoring new teachers receive through their districts.

Participants will experience high-leverage strategies and techniques to use in classrooms, identify when to implement them, how to execute them effectively, and ways to adapt them to meet students’ unique needs. To accomplish this goal, Lift builds the knowledge and skills of educators in the following focus areas:

• Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments for all students
• Unpacking Standards to Create Powerful Daily Learning Objectives with Aligned Learning Tasks and Formative Assessments
• Improving Classroom Management, Instructional Practices, and Student Engagement Through Classroom Culture
• Implementation with Performance Coach Support

Ascend

Program Duration: One Year
Program Manager: K. Celeste Murray
Participants: Teachers with 5 or more years of experience
Number of Participants Served: 200 teachers and 10 CoP Facilitators

Program Overview

Ascend is the Priority Schools Bureau’s initiative to support and empower experienced teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools.

The Ascend program is designed for teachers with 5 or more years of teaching experience and/or who have completed Lift or Achieve Excellence Rising (AE-R). It focuses on strategies that expand and extend teacher skills and knowledge while simultaneously developing networks of collaboration across the state through Communities of Practice (CoPs).

Topics covered include:

• Brain-based teaching and learning
• Mindsets and instructional practices that engage students and increase student achievement.
• Understanding and meaningfully using Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

Aloft

Pilot program for the 2024-2025 School Year
Program Duration: One Year
Program Manager: K. Celeste Murray
Participants: Teachers with 5 or more years of teaching experience

Program Overview

This pilot initiative has been designed to support and empower experienced teachers and teacher leaders who are interested in deepening their professional and instructional practices as they work to improve student outcomes in their schools. Professional Learning will focus on:

• Developing teacher efficacy through collaborative, innovative, reflective processes.
• Deconstructing rigor, effective questioning, and depth of knowledge (DoK) to improve teaching and learning.
• Deepening student engagement through critical thinking and discussion.
• Incorporating brain-based, culturally responsive, equitable frameworks.

Launch

Program Duration: One Year
Program Manager: Regina Timms
Participants: Teacher leaders wishing to learn more about leadership development
Number of Participants Served: 60 teachers in two-cohorts of 30, two Executive coaches

Program Overview

Launch builds teachers leadership capacity by providing professional learning grounded in the understanding of change and developing leadership skills to support teacher leadership development, whether that be moving into a formal leadership pathway or continuing to grow as a teacher leader, department chair, mentor, and master classroom teacher.

Thrive

Program Duration: Two Years
Program Manager: Sandy Gladden
Participants: District, School, and teachers wanting to learn more about observation and feedback coaching cycles
Number of Participants Served: 150 leaders and 50 Performance Coaches

Program Overview

Designed to support leaders in developing and implementing a successful and robust system for Observation, Feedback, and Coaching Cycles (OFCCs) learning more about the role of:

• The Foundations of Coaching
• Before, During and After the Observation
• Effective Feedback
• Instructional Priorities
• Delivering Feedback
• Observation Data

Climb

Program Duration: One Year
Program Manager: Bernadette Ellis
Participants: K-12 sitting Instructional Coaches
Number of Participants Served: 50 principals and 25 Performance Coaches

Program Overview

Designed to support Instructional Coaches with the foundations of coaching through interactive learning focusing on core values, building relationships, and goal setting, Coaching Foundations and the power of Observation and Feedback Cycles.

RISE

Program Duration: Two Years
Program Manager: Connie Copeland
Participants: Principals
Number of Participants Served: 50 School Leaders per cohort and 30 Performance Coaches
Cohorts: Two

RISE Cohort IV: 2022-2024
RISE Cohort V: 2024-2026

Program Overview

PSB’s flagship initiative is aimed at leveraging the expertise of New Mexico’s school leaders to support and empower school leaders as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools. RISE supports school leaders in their competency development, via a School Leader 360, in the development of a Competency Development Plan that they work with to establish goals and milestones with their Performance Coach, to transform academic achievement in their schools through the NM School DASH process.

SOAR

Program Duration: Two Years
Program Manager: Elisabeth Nixon Peterson
Participants: Superintendents and District Level Team Members
Number of Participants Served: Up to 35 districts

Program Overview

SOAR has been designed to support Superintendents and district leadership teams. The program aims to support teams identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement in five key areas:

1. Equity and Culture
2. Leadership
3. Instructional Infrastructure
4. Talent Management
5. Support and Accountability

Priority Schools Bureau Professional Learning

Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Training (CSSLE)

Program Manager: Regina Timms
Participants: Open statewide

Program Overview

In this one-day training participants will be able to:

• Identify the purpose and process of Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments through examining the basic parts of the function of the brain and how those manifest behavior and adverse experiences.
• Examine how the three Rs—Regulate Relate and Reason—impact student learning.
• Discuss differences between regulation and dysregulation.
• Compare traditional reactions to safe and supportive responses that are restorative, and trauma informed.
• Identify how culture and bias influence our perceptions of how we respond and react.
• Identify the significance of student voice and agency.

Resource: CSSLE Facilitator Guide To be published in the 2024-2025 school year

NM School DASH Annual and 90-Day Plans; NM School DASH LEA Certification; NM School DASH Annual, Spring and Fall Monitoring

Program Team: All PSB Team Members
Participants: All New Mexico Schools and Charters

Program Overview

The New Mexico Public Education Department (NM PED) strives to ensure that every student is successful in their future college, career, or civic endeavors by building capacity for educators statewide to sustain improvement and close achievement gaps.

The department brings this vision to life through NM School DASH — a framework for evidence-based planning, implementation, and monitoring processes for schools. Informed by thorough research and statewide input from school and district leaders, NM School DASH model inspires change by facilitating a straightforward course of action for New Mexico educators.

The framework identifies key resources to support the change process; documents critical offline planning, implementation, and monitoring activities; and informs substantive collaborative data-based conversations.

The NM School DASH Process Guide for the 2024-2025 SY will be differentiated to support schools in designation.

By supporting a common, consistent approach to improvement plans, NM School DASH allows for a scalable approach to improvement plans, encourages a laser-like focus on improving student outcomes, and cultivates a growth mindset amongst educators.