Lift – New Program 2023-2024
Program Manager: K. Celeste Murray with support of Regina Timms
Participants: Teachers with 2-5 years of teaching experience in NM.
Program Overview: Designed to support early-career teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools by sharing strategies that establish foundational practices resulting in successful instruction.
Resource: Beginning Teacher Support Guide
Ascend Lift – New Program 2023
Program Manager: K. Celeste Murray with support of Regina Timms
Participants: Teachers with 5 or more years of experience.
Program Overview: Designed to empower experienced teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools, focusing on strategies that expand and extend their skills and knowledge while simultaneously developing networks of collaboration across the state through communities of practice (CoPs).
Launch
Program Managers: Regina Timms and K. Celeste Murray
Participants: Launch is an invitation only pilot program designed to support the retention of teacher leaders in New Mexico.
Program Overview: Launch build teachers leadership capacity by providing professional learning grounded in the understanding of change and developing leadership skills to support teacher leadership development, whether that be moving into a formal leadership pathway or continuing to grow as a teacher leader, department chair, mentor, and master classroom teacher.
Resource: Beginning Teacher Support Guide
Lead
Program Manager: Sandy Gladden
Participants: New principals with less than 3 years of experience who wish to learn more about developing best practices.
Program Overview: Supporting early career school leaders in effective coaching/mentoring, instructional infrastructure, data driven instruction, effective school culture, and the use of feedback.
Resource: Beginning Principal Support Guide
Thrive
Program Manager: Connie Longley Copeland
Participants: Educational Leaders, Instructional Coaches, etc., who wish to learn more about building effective observation and feedback coaching cycles.
Program Overview: Supporting school leaders in designing effective observation, feedback, and coaching cycles.
Climb – New Program 2023-2024
Program Manager: Elisabeth Nixon Peterson
Participants: K-12 Instructional Coaches or those who are interested in developing their instructional coaching skills.
Program Overview: Designed to support instructional coaches in developing specific competencies and values that guide their work and provide a foundation, while supporting them with tools and resources that they may use when developing their coaching skills.
RISE
Program Manager: Elisabeth Nixon Peterson
Participants: Principals or Assistant Principals (must sit on the NM School DASH Core Team)
Program Overview: PSB’s flagship initiative is aimed at leveraging the expertise of New Mexico’s leaders to support and empower school leaders as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools. RISE supports school leaders in their competency development, via a School Leader 360, in the development of a Competency Development Plan that they work with to establish goals and milestones with their Performance Coach, to transform academic achievement in their schools through the NM School DASH process.
Cohorts: Two
- RISE Cohort III: 2022-2024
- RISE Cohort IV: 2023-2025
SOAR
Program Manager: Elisabeth Nixon Peterson
Participants: Invited Superintendents
Program Overview: SOAR is a pilot program for district leadership teams designed and delivered by the Priority Schools Bureau. The program aims to help teams identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement in five key areas. (1) Equity and Culture, (2) Leadership, (3) Instructional Infrastructure, (4) Talent Management, and (5) Support and Accountability.
Resource: District Support and Conditions Manual
Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Training (CSSLE)
Program Manager: Regina Timms
Participants: Open statewide throughout the 2023-2024 SY.
Program Overview: In this one-day training participants will be able to:
- Identify the purpose and process of Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments through examining the basic parts of the function of the brain and how those manifest behavior and adverse experiences.
- Examine how the three Rs—Regulate Relate and Reason—impact student learning.
- Discuss differences between regulation and dysregulation.
- Compare traditional reactions to safe and supportive responses that are restorative, and trauma informed.
- Identify how culture and bias influence our perceptions of how we respond and react.
- Identify the significance of student voice and agency.
