Cohort Collaborations

EML Cohort 3 Update – July 11
Participants (Provided by name in bold)	Specific instances of cohort collaboration
Doug Hollis Katie L Rob J Rachel S Andre S Scott A Delia DD James A Kennard B Burnell H Don B Carly W Sandy W Fonda S Mireille L Brandon E Jo-Anne H	The School Strategy & Logistics Program, led by Doug is in Katie's, Rachel’s and Andre’s schools Rob and Doug have shared operational information throughout the year and Rob will be participating in summer training for some of Doug’s newest staff Scott and Doug have shared some “energizer’s” and “summarizer’s” related to summer trainings they will lead Doug spoke with Delia, James and Kennard about the possibilities of the School Strategy & Logistics Program programs at their schools; not happening now but hopeful Doug visited with Don at his school. Learned about the challenges at Stoddert. Sandy and Doug have shared some resumes of candidates with each other Doug has been discussing with Burnell ways to be involved with his initiative and the possibility of an SSL person at the new Urban Prep High School Carla, Sandy, Fonda, Rob, and Burnell have provided valuable counsel to Doug related to navigating Central Office bureaucracy, particularly during a season of transitions Doug has talked about and hoping to visit Mireille's and Brandon’s schools, to learn more about the school community and operations there.  Jo-Anne and Doug have been in communication about a member of her team transitioning to serve as a member of the SSL team in a school
Rob Jaber Don B Delia DD Brandon E Doug H Chrisanne L James A Andre S Carla W Fonda S Na’imah S	·       Rob collaborated with Don during National School Breakfast Week to host a “parents eat free breakfast with their students” event, televised on Fox 5 morning news Rob collaborated with Delia to implement the second “International Food Station” concept (Chipotle style service) at Kramer Rob has successfully supported Delia with a new, full kitchen and Cafeteria Modernization not included in the original scope of work to be complete in August. Rob collaborated with Brandon to improve the quality of staff in the school which will lead to improved student food and service Rob is working with Doug to prepare the DSL program with orientation information that will be helpful in understanding and navigating food services Rob is working with Brandon, Chrisanne and Don in the most recent group project from the work started during the mid-year residency ·       Rob is working on a new system for principals to authorize Free and Reduced Students vs. having parents complete forms as a result of conversations with James – hope to implement by September ·       Rob met with a food focus group of students and faculty at Browne EC as a result of Andre’s suggestion to meet with one particular student – Quentin Turner. As a result of Quentin’s desire to change the world, OFNS has provided Browne with an ice machine and is connecting with him to improve student satisfaction as he is now a Student Food Ambassador. ·       Rob and Carla are working on the team stakeholder project for Fitz ·       Rob and Fonda have been spending a good bit of time responding to food service information requests from Council as well as visiting together ·       Rob had DC Central Kitchen host their main student event at Drew ES (Na’imah) for Strawberries and Salad Greens Day to include tastings and activities such as grow your own strawberry plant (kids could take them home) and bringing the truck farm on site (it’s a farm growing in the back of a pickup truck….yes….really).
Rachel Skerritt Katie L Burnell H Andre S Jessica H Jo-Anne H	·       Fitz project with Larkin, Holland, and Samuels to create a Saturday program at Cooke and Browne EC.  Eastern kiddos will participate as junior mentors. ·       I am just reaching out to Jess Heard and Jo-Anne Henry regarding a back to school training for my staff around race and bias.
Jo-Anne Henry Sandy W Chrisanne L Doug H Na’imah S Rachel S Jessica H	·       Sandy Watson worked with us as we looked at RTI Guide language around when RTI “ends” with both Gen Ed students and students referred to/screened into Special Ed ·       Chrisanne LaHue, myself and my RTI Team looked at her RTI Tiers language that she was presenting to 9th Grade Academy trainees ·       My Policy and Compliance Team is working with Fonda to finalize “Clarifications to DCMR Chapter 25 Discipline” code and be on same page about internal DCPS and external sign off on this guidance ·       Doug came to me about a sensitive staff issue with one of my team (who is now transitioning to another DCPS position through his team), and Doug’s heads up helped my team prep for the change much earlier and better than if we’d waited to hear from the staff person (Doug handled it beautifully, he let the staff person know up front he’d be talking to me about it) ·       Na’imah and I have sought each other’s counsel several times on elementary school behavior and parent engagement issues ·       Rachel is engaging Jessica, myself and a few other cohort members around how to talk to her school staff about race and equity in the school setting ·       Our Mid-residency team is taking on 3 challenging, systemic behavior issues and already taking next steps to further unpack and propose solutions to various Central Office stakeholders
Scott Abbott Katie L Burnell H Andre S Mireille L Na’imah S Kennard B Don B Brandon E Rob J Rachel S Doug H	·       Katie, Burnell, and Andre are working together to set up Saturday academies at Cooke and Browne, bringing mentors into schools on Saturday and organizing additional service projects ·       Scott, Mireille, and Na’imah are partnering on the project for Fitz’s class to create a strategic plan for improving elementary social studies, this plan will be shared with Katie, Kennard, Don, Brandon, and Andre ·       Scott sharing resumes for potential social studies teachers with Rachel, Andre to help with filling vacancies ·       Na’imah working with local childcare center (Rob), to incentivize parents coming to the school for back to school night ·       Scott, Kennard, and Rob coming together for International Food Day at Garfield Elementary ·       Mireille and Rob connecting about Moten’s kitchen being in the red, they were able to clean up the kitchen and fix the issues ·       Scott and Katie collaborated to bring social studies and science teachers to HD Cooke for 4 weeks of summer institutes for the BLISS and SCALE programs ·       Rachel and Doug are working together in the Strategy and Logistics pilot, maybe other cohort member principals could participate ·       Scott and Andre meet to talk in-depth about social studies at Browne and the BLISS/SAGE programs ·       Cohort members offered Andre feedback on stay interviews with his staff
Delia DD Sandy W Rob J Doug H	·       With Sandy regarding Special Education issues for guidance                                    ·       With Rob regarding cafeteria issues resulting in new food offerings for Kramer ·       With Douglas on a potential position for school operations