What we offer to schools Partners in School Innovation assigns a team of four or five Partners to each partner school, as well as a half-time Partnership Director. Each Partner serves for two years, and a typical team includes both first and second-year Partners.
Partners work on the school site, full-time , four days a week.
On the fifth day they join Partners from other schools in training and reflective learning at our offices in San Francisco. Partners collaborate with teachers, resource staff and others in their schools on projects that address the school's priorities for reform. We recognize that real change takes extra time and special attention, and we think teachers working for change should get special support. As a start this year, groups of teachers across grades K-5 are implementing Reciprocal Teaching strategies in their classrooms. Partners help teachers develop research questions, lead groups of students in the strategies, assess students at the outset and the conclusion of the cycle, record observations during the cycle, and develop ways to extend Reciprocal Teaching beyond the pilot.