Type: In School, Math/Science, Teacher/Administrator Training/Placement/Professional development

Tag words: CTE, school-based, in school, office, high-performing students, special needs, learning disabilities, work force readiness, career skills, environment, science, technology

Career Technical Education (CTE)

Description: CEI-PEA operates a major initiative to advance career technical education (CTE) programs available to New York City public school students. The CTE Initiative includes both school-based and workplace-based programs, and it serves students across the spectrum of abilities, from high-performing students to those with special needs. The goal of the Initiative is to prepare students for work in the new economies of the 21st century. The CTE Initiative is based on partnerships with public K-12 schools, private businesses, and higher education technical training programs. These partnerships leverage existing resources and bring together experts across sectors in order to build training programs that are both practical and academically challenging.

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Network

Description: In New York City, CEI-PEA facilitates a Network of more than 220 public schools. The Network provides schools with a number of critical resources and opportunities: Educational Continuity, Leaders Helping Leaders, Access to Extra Resources, Collaborative Professional Development, Collective Organizing and Advocacy,

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The Charter School Technical Assistance Center

Description: In the 1990s, CEI-PEA recognized that one of the best ways to advance school autonomy in exchange for accountability was to establish a system of charter schools. Building on CEI-PEA’s success in creating new schools and restructuring existing schools, the organization’s leaders advocated for charter schools and helped secure passage of the 1998 charter school legislation in New York State. The Charter School Technical Assistance Center was immediately established to help the first charter applicants develop their plans, which cover such areas as curriculum design, governance, administration, budgeting, assessment and accountability. Once the schools were granted charters, the Center began providing support to help them fulfill the commitments made in their applications. When it became clear that the charter school movement needed its own forum, CEI-PEA organized a coalition that meets regularly to address concerns such as funding, staffing, charter legislation and regulations.

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Description: While based in New York City, CEI-PEA has fostered alliances with schools and school systems across the country and around the world.

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Kids’ ISO 14000

Description: CEI-PEA, in partnership with International Art and Technology Cooperation Organization (ArTech), is currently planning the New York City implementation of Kids’ ISO 14000, an innovative environmental education program that helps children align society’s use of energy with the needs of our environment. The Kids’ ISO 14000 mission is accomplished by training children ages 10 and up to implement environmental management strategies in their homes and communities. The program utilizes workbooks, manuals, direct instruction and real-world applications of environmental management to provide children with a hands-on environmental management curriculum. These activities have led to over 10 percent reductions in greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions in the households and local communities in which the children who have completed the program are active.

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:

Description: EI-PEA works with principals, assistant principals and school leadership teams to develop the skills and assets necessary to meet the challenge.

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SUPPORT FOR TEACHERS

Description: It is imperative that public school systems recruit and retain high quality individuals into the teaching profession. In 2006, CEI-PEA formed a partnership with Teach For America (TFA) to develop strategies to achieve this goal.

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Description: In April 2007, CEI-PEA was approved as a Partnership Support Organization (PSO) for New York City public schools. As a PSO, CEI-PEA is providing 55 schools with customized support to help teachers and school leaders accelerate learning among the 35,833 students attending the schools. CEI-PEA delivers services to schools through on-site, embedded professional development as well as through a network system in which schools identify collective challenges for network-wide professional development.PICCS: Partnership for Innovation in Compensation for Charter Schools is a five-year project that is helping New York City charter schools recruit, retain, develop and reward top quality teachers and school leaders. Funded through a $10.5 million Teacher Incentive Fund grant from the United States Department of Education, PICCS is designed to serve as a model for using performance-based compensation systems to drive increases in student performance. PICCS is a project of the Center for Educational Innovation – Public Education Association (CEI-PEA), a New York-based nonprofit organization, which is partnering with ten public charter schools.

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Project BOOST

Description: Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a program targeted at late elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they do not have the opportunity to develop their talent. Project BOOST's main goal is to help participating students gain admission to quality high schools upon completion of the project (eighth grade). “Quality high school” is defined as competitive and specialized high schools, including local educational option schools and private schools, as well as independent schools (both commuter and residential) and parochial schools.

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Description: One of the main strategies by which CEI-PEA has helped lead the small schools movement in New York City is through the restructuring of large schools into sets of smaller learning communities. Through the CEI-PEA school restructuring process, large schools are divided into smaller learning communities (SLCs) that are often theme-based and provide students and educators with an educational environment that builds on their strengths and meets their specific needs. The CEI-PEA process re-energizes the entire learning environment by taking all of the physical resources that already exist in a public school (people and the building itself) and all the intangibles (ideas, time and relationships) and re-arranging them to free up the energy and creativity of the educators and students.

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