Program Overview

Lift has been designed to support and empower early-career teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools by sharing strategies to establish foundational practices that help early-career teachers experience successful instruction.

First year teachers are eligible to participate; however, the work with Lift is not intended to replace the mentoring new teachers receive through their districts.

Participants will experience high-leverage strategies and techniques to use in classrooms, identify when to implement them, how to execute them effectively, and ways to adapt them to meet students’ unique needs. To accomplish this goal, Lift builds the knowledge and skills of educators in the following focus areas:

• Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments for all students
• Unpacking Standards to Create Powerful Daily Learning Objectives with Aligned Learning Tasks and Formative Assessments
• Improving Classroom Management, Instructional Practices, and Student Engagement Through Classroom Culture
• Implementation with Performance Coach Support

Resource: Beginning Teacher Support Guide

Program Overview

Ascend is the Priority Schools Bureau’s initiative to support and empower experienced teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools.

The Ascend program is designed for teachers with 5 or more years of teaching experience and/or who have completed Lift or Achieve Excellence Rising (AE-R). It focuses on strategies that expand and extend teacher skills and knowledge while simultaneously developing networks of collaboration across the state through Communities of Practice (CoPs).

Topics covered include:

• Brain-based teaching and learning
• Mindsets and instructional practices that engage students and increase student achievement.
• Understanding and meaningfully using Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

Program Overview

This pilot initiative has been designed to support and empower experienced teachers and teacher leaders who are interested in deepening their professional and instructional practices as they work to improve student outcomes in their schools. Professional Learning will focus on:

• Developing teacher efficacy through collaborative, innovative, reflective processes.
• Deconstructing rigor, effective questioning, and depth of knowledge (DoK) to improve teaching and learning.
• Deepening student engagement through critical thinking and discussion.
• Incorporating brain-based, culturally responsive, equitable frameworks.

Program Overview

Launch builds 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.

Program Overview

The program has been designed to support new leaders with essential leadership understandings and provide examples of essential leadership moves of successful models/and or steps to approach the work, looking at:

• Change, Root Cause Analysis and Planning for Change, NM School DASH, Instructional Infrastructure, Data Driven Instruction, Difficult Conversations, and the power of Professional Learning Communities.

Leaders are provided a Year at a Glance, a monthly calendar of tasks and events to serve as a starting point for planning and scheduling their school year. The calendar consists of the primary tasks principals will likely be responsible for accomplishing organized by month.

Program Overview

Designed to support leaders in developing and implementing a successful and robust system for Observation, Feedback, and Coaching Cycles (OFCCs) learning more about the role of:

• The Foundations of Coaching
• Before, During and After the Observation
• Effective Feedback
• Instructional Priorities
• Delivering Feedback
• Observation Data

Program Overview

Designed to support Instructional Coaches with the foundations of coaching through interactive learning focusing on core values, building relationships, and goal setting, Coaching Foundations and the power of Observation and Feedback Cycles.

Program Overview

PSB’s flagship initiative is aimed at leveraging the expertise of New Mexico’s school 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.

Program Overview

SOAR has been designed to support Superintendents and district leadership teams. The program aims to support 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
5. Support and Accountability

Priority Schools Bureau Professional Learning

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.

Resource: CSSLE Facilitator Guide To be published in the 2024-2025 school year

Program Overview

The New Mexico Public Education Department (NM PED) strives to ensure that every student is successful in their future college, career, or civic endeavors by building capacity for educators statewide to sustain improvement and close achievement gaps.

The department brings this vision to life through NM School DASH — a framework for evidence-based planning, implementation, and monitoring processes for schools. Informed by thorough research and statewide input from school and district leaders, NM School DASH model inspires change by facilitating a straightforward course of action for New Mexico educators.

The framework identifies key resources to support the change process; documents critical offline planning, implementation, and monitoring activities; and informs substantive collaborative data-based conversations.

The NM School DASH Process Guide for the 2024-2025 SY will be differentiated to support schools in designation.

By supporting a common, consistent approach to improvement plans, NM School DASH allows for a scalable approach to improvement plans, encourages a laser-like focus on improving student outcomes, and cultivates a growth mindset amongst educators.

Resources

• NM School DASH Public Site and Sign In page for users
• NM School DASH Resource Library
• NM School DASH Process Guide
• NM School DASH Monitoring