NUA Projects
National Urban Alliance projects are listed below. They include brief descriptions and links for more in-depth information about the different projects. The listing is divided into two sections: current projects and previous collaborations.
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Current NUA Projects
Beacon, New York
The NUA/Beacon program for the 2003-2004 school year included conducting a customized district-wide Instructional Assessment (IA) to pinpoint needs and related factors for each school team to consider in formulating its School Education Plan for the 2004-2005 school year; working with the middle school’s leadership team to develop and implement an initial Course of Study that reflects the IA Report’s findings; and to increase the confidence and engagement of parents by offering them a series of Thinking Maps workshops.
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Birmingham, Alabama
The TRUST Initiative
Birmingham/the TRUST Initiative is a comprehensive partnership to redefine the preparation and retention of teachers for urban settings. Many teachers in urban schools leave teaching early or migrate to suburban districts. A local and national approach to teacher training and staff development will provide the environment in which young teachers can first survive and then contribute to eliminating the achievement gaps that prevents many students from reaching their full potential.
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Hamden, Connecticut
Hamden/NUA Partnership
The mission of the Hamden Public Schools is to ensure all students learn to the best of their potential each and every day. The focus of the Hamden Public Schools/NUA partnership is to support the district in its efforts to reach this goal. Working in collaboration with district personnel, NUA will conduct a comprehensive Instructional Assessment (IA), data from which will be used to design a targeted professional development plan.
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Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis/NUA Literacy Initiative and Vanguard Process
The IPS/NUA project is a collaborative effort that began in 1998 as a three year Literacy Initiative. The project components included regional staff development sessions, administrator training, extensive site visits, leadership academies, summer intensive sessions, and collaboration with the district offices led by NUA consultants. In June of 2001, the project was expanded to include the Vanguard Project. Teams of administrators and teachers from Vanguard Schools, in collaboration with NUA consultants, are incorporating research-based best practices to create self-sustaining high performing schools to end the achievement gap between the highest and lowest performing students. Additional capacity and support is provided by Instructional Coaches and NUA Certified Instructors, who are IPS employees trained and certified by NUA.
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Minneapolis
WMEP/NUA Literacy Initiative
The West Metropolitan Education Program (WMEP) is a consortium of districts in the Minneapolis area, including Minneapolis Public Schools and a number of neighboring suburban districts. Through an open enrollment policy, and a special program called The Choice Is Yours (TCIY), students from each district have a chance to attend the school of their choice in the other districts. A number of children of color whose educational achievement is not as high as it could be are now choosing to attend schools that they and their parents believe will offer them better educational opportunities. The resulting movement, especially from the city to the suburban districts, has led to increased racial and socio-economic diversity in all the districts, a phenomenon that requires modifying classroom instruction to accommodate to the changing student populations. WMEP and NUA are working together to design and implement a Literacy Initiative that will provide guidance and professional development to the participating schools, the goal being to ensure that every child increases his or her potential and is able to read, write, and think at the highest possible levels.
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark/NUA Literacy Initiative
The Newark. NUA literacy initiate began in 2000 with the introduction of Writing as Learning to the district’s 13 high schools. The NUA started with a high school writing initiative because Newark needed a strong writing component in its plan to gain district independence from state management. In 2001 the NUA, with the support of the central administration, began a year’s long process for introducing literacy and writing concepts to the department chairs, assistant principals and principals. In 2002-2003 the initiative built upon the foundation of the previous year’s sessions including piloting the writing program in two of the district elementary schools. In addition to literacy, NUA consultants support the districts ETS system for teacher evaluation and coaching sessions for building administrators.
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Seattle, Washington
Seattle/NUA Literacy Initiative
The Seattle/NUA Literacy Initiative is designed to build on the district's mission to mediate learning, kindle enthusiasm for learning on all levels, and meet the Essential Academic Learning Requirements. The Literacy Initiative supports and compliments the district's mission to translate the standards-based learning system into instructional strategies and opportunities that target students at selected grade levels to meet the reading standards and achieve WASL outcomes. In addition, the Literacy Initiative practicum and site visits provide structures for communication and support of a common literacy focus in each school, assist teachers in achieving the standards, and improve learning across disciplines. A particular focus at all grade levels is to accelerate the acquisition of reading, writing, and communication abilities.
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UP for Literacy
International Reading Association and National Urban Alliance
Urban Partnerships for Literacy (UP) mobilizes communities of citizens, educators, and scholars committed to all students in prekindergarten through 12th grade achieving high levels of literacy—especially children of color and those in disadvantaged circumstances. UP unites the International Reading Association (350,000 members and affiliates strong in scholarship and practice in 80 countries) with the National Urban Alliance, whose decade-long work in more than 30 U.S. urban areas has refined its programs of professional coaching for teachers and mentors, and its promotion of systemic reform.
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Previous Collaborations
- Charles County, Md., Public Schools
- Chicago, Illinois, High Schools
- Dancing with Data: A collaboration of Professional Development Laboratory (New York University) and the National Urban Alliance. read more
- Dayton, Ohio
- Detroit, Michigan
- Freeport, Illinois
- Indian River, Delaware
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Los Angeles, California, Public Schools
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Mt. Vernon, New York
- New York City, New York - District 4
- New York City, New York - District 9
- New York City, New York - District 13
- Orange County, Florida, High Schools
- Professional Development for Nurturing Gifted Performance: The Professional Development Program For Nurturing Gifted Performance will guide teachers in implementing an enriched program to encourage critical and creative skills, problem solving, decision making and advanced research skills. It will provide professional development opportunities in both enrichment and acceleration. read more
- Prince George's County, Maryland: In the P.G. County Title 1/ NUA program teachers are introduced to cognitive strategies that promote literacy and develop students’ higher order critical thinking skills in all content areas. The strategies presented by NUA are designed to facilitate instruction and learning, and they are correlated with Dimensions of Learning and MSPAP (Maryland Performance Assessment Program). read more
- San Francisco, California, Middle Schools
- South Huntington, NY, Public Schools
- Stamford, Connecticut, Public Schools
- Washington D.C.
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