Application Criteria
21st Century Learning Teams: Part IV: Team Success
How has the team directly contributed to improved student achievement? Students have received scholarships, raised their GPA's, improved their digital portfolios, refined career goals, increased their access to sophicated technologies and increased their global understandings and fields of interest.
What has been the most significant team learning thus far? Team members have beeen able to maintain their understandings of the progress of the team and the students by sustaining electronic communications. Each meeting is enhanced by the discovery of new linkages and mutual understandings.
How has the team impacted the schools structure and culture?
Cite: Fall 2007 "Roll-Out" of AIM Program for all Northwestern High School Students
*focus element: New students arrival from closed high schools
The school's climate on the floor where the program is located has changed and the focus on scholarhip has improved dramatically. The directed result of these efforts has resulted in the school administrator's request to make the entire school into an AIM school.
What are the other indicators of success?
The Detroit Public Schools has made an intial request to replicate the AIM program across the enire district. What started out in the summer of 2006 with 20+ students has evolved into 100+ students as of this date. The program growth is only limited by the team's ability to manage it.
Team Challenges and Solutions
Migrating the program to other locations requires supportive staff including administrative participation at each site as well as a key champion to orchestrate the implementation.
How does the team demonstrate 21st Century skills?
The team's use of video, broadband and voice services and their knowledge transfer of skills allows students opportunites to discover creative approaches to problem solving and utilizing new found tool sets.
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