Pays Leading Educators up to $306,609 to improve how OUSD picks and teaches curriculum through 2023

Leading Educators, Inc. would help the district strengthen how it selects high-quality instructional materials and build a lasting professional learning system for staff, with a focus on educational equity. The term is October 1, 2020 through September 29, 2023, for up to $306,609.00. The agreement period began before this December 9, 2020 vote.

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Vendor / partner: Leading Educators, Inc. · New Orleans, LA
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 29, 2023
This vote: $306,609
Funding: Schusterman Family Foundation Grant
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 20-2297 · agenda V.-54
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Dec 9, 2020

Official text

Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Agreement 2020-2021 between the District and Leading Educators, Inc., New Orleans, LA, for the latter to provide the following key components: Strengthening OUSD's existing curricula-adoption process for selecting high quality instructional materials (HQIM); Establishing district conditions necessary for effective professional learning, including stakeholder engagement, resource alignment, and processes for continuous improvement; Building capacity within district staff to design curricula-based content cycles (ccs) that align to principles of adult learning; Co-constructing a sustainable, scalable PL system that can carry the work forward without the help of an external partner and Confronting issues of educational equity head-on with an approach aligned to District’s values and specific cultural context, via the Academics and Instructional Innovation Department, for the period of October 1, 2020 through September 29, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $306,609.00.

History

Dec 9, 2020 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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