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This Data & Assessment Manager has dual roles across the Data and CIA teams. She hails from the great state of Arizona!
Who is Stacy Bien?
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In addition to being an Illuminate master, she also develops K-8 quarterlies and mock state test assessments. She will be supporting KIPP Infinity ES, KIPP Academy ES, KIPP STAR Harlem, and KIPP AMP ES with their guided reading implementation plans.
Who is Stacy Bien, Data and Assessment Manager?
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Doug Dukeman, 7th grade science teacher, called her the other day to plan KIPP NYC Day meetings. He also asked her for all of our science teacher contact info.
Who is Kari Ostrem?
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Nancy works with these two organizations to drive instructional vision and support strategic planning.
What is KIPP NYC and KIPP National?
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These instructional areas are part of the instructional design initiative. Jim Manly, Tisha Markette, and Stephanie Smith are the external consultants who will work within each of our schools this year to coach our teachers and build our capacity to execute excellently in these areas.
What are guided reading and CGI?
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Coming to us just two months ago from Scholastic, she's actually been around for a couple of years. Kate Baughman might call her the Read 180 guru.
Who is April Croy?
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She will support KIPP NYC middle schools and KIPP STAR Washington Heights ES with guided reading implementation and our schools piloting the KIPP Wheatley curriculum. She will also lead a review of data and assessment practices across the region to inform our direction for 2015-16.
Who is April Croy, Director of Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction?
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My teachers are obsessed with Illuminate and we now want to offer a training at our next whole school meeting. Also, we were reviewing our mock assessments, and we have a question about them.
Who is Stacy Bien?
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Kari works with these schools to create our overall science vision.
What is all of our schools?
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Throughout the fall of this school year, April will be reviewing and collecting information on this area. She will then develop a research-based recommendation on how KIPP NYC should approach it for the 2015-2016 school year and beyond.
What is assessment?
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Teacher, principal, and resident PD aficionado, she loves to plan KIPP NYC Days.
Who is Amber Field?
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She leads our approach to professional development, which includes programming for summer training, KIPP NYC Days, and Dean of Teaching and Learning Days and effective school based professional development practices. She will also be supporting elementary and middle schools with CGI implementation.
Who is Amber Field, Director of Professional Development Opportunities?
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We're trying to figure out the best resource for our guided reading library.
Who is April Croy?
300
April Croy works with these schools on MS Guided Reading.
What Academy Middle, STAR Middle, AMP Middle, Infinity Middle & WHMS?
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Two of our schools have shifted to this reading curriculum developed for KIPP. April will support these two schools in its implementation.
What is KIPP Wheatley?
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This team member knows CMOs well. Previously the VP of Teaching and Learning for Achievement First, she now supports other KIPP regions when she's not leading the KIPP NYC CIA Team.
Who is Nancy Livingston?
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She's in charge! She drives KIPP NYC's instructional design vision and supports principals and MDs in making sound instructional decisions for KIPPsters.
Who is Nancy Livingston, Chief Academic Officer?
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My principal is considering an overhaul to the instructional schedule and we need some input before making a final decision.
Who is Nancy Livingston?
400
Stacy has met with the instructional leadership team and guided reading consultants of these schools over the last two weeks.
What are KIPP Infinity ES, KIPP Academy ES, KIPP STAR Harlem, and KIPP AMP ES?
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Kari will gather data our KIPP NYC alums in college to determine how prepared they are for science. She'll then map that back to our K-12 curriculum and ensure we are aligned to these new science standards.
What are the Next Generation Science Standards?
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Brand new to KIPP NYC, she knows science. You may have seen her meeting with your science teachers over the past couple of weeks.
Who is Karena (Kari) Ostrem?
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Only here for this school year, she will be working with the CIA and schools to create a science course of study, backwards mapped from our college and high school expectations.
Who is Kari Ostrem, KIPP NYC Science Consultant?
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I want to lead a session on KIPP NYC Day. My teachers are teaching CGI and are looking for support with planning. Our deans are interested in using Teach Boost to look for trends.
Who is Amber Field?
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I've observe CGI at these schools over the last two weeks and I can't wait to come back for more!
What are all elementary schools and Academy Middle and AMP Middle?
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This is everyone's favorite time of year, and the CIA would like to better support your schools in determining your instructional resource, supply, and materials needs. We know there are sometimes surprises and we'd like to get ahead of that as much as possible.
What is budget season?
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