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Each year, NAfET accepts applications for schools to become a member of our
partner schools’ network. The applications are due June 1 of the calendar
year. The application gives continuing and prospective schools the opportunity
to respond in detail to NAfET’s mission, goals, and guiding principles
and how they see themselves as a full partner in the professional development
opportunities that NAfET provides. The application also asks schools to describe
how they will use the NAfET workplan in implementing the school’s professional
development priorities and how they will participate and use the data that NAfET
collects to focus on instructional improvement. A Selection and Visitation Committee
of NAfET will visit each new prospective school meeting with the principal,
teachers, parents and community members to see if both the organization and
the school are a good match for each other before a collective decision is made.
Please respond to the following questions by June 1, 2008 and mail or email
to:
Dr. Douglas E. Wood
Executive Director
National Academy for Excellent Teaching
Teachers College, Columbia University
Interchurch Building, Suite 650
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
wood@tc.columbia.edu
1. Name of School:_____________________________________________
2. Principal’s Name:____________________________________________
3. School Address:_____________________________________________
4. Telephone:_________________________________________________
5. Email Address:______________________________________________
6. Website (if applicable):________________________________________
Please respond the question as thoughtfully and thoroughly as you can.
Questions 7- 10 are for prospective schools and Questions 9-11 are for NAfET participating schools from the previous year.
7. Please describe briefly the history of your school. Also describe your school’s
instructional philosophy and how that philosophy is supported structurally within
the school.
8. Please include the following demographic information about your school: (Number
of instructional staff; percentage of students on free or reduced lunch; percentage
of students who are ELL and receive special services; average year of teacher
experience).
9. NAfET has designed several professional development opportunities to support
schools to meet their professional development goals. They include: Three professional
development forums for schools (August 28-30; Nov 7; and a spring date TBA);
monthly content-based practitioner forums; and the Small Schools
10. NAfET provides schools with several types of data (Please see attached).
A) Does your schools agree to cooperate in the collection of these data? and
B) Please explain how your school will use these data to inform instruction
and plans for addressing professional development needs and goals?
11. NAfET requires each school to complete a workplan for the school year. Please
answer the following questions regarding the plan:
A) How did you and your school use the workplan this year?
B) Please explain the progress your school made on the goals in this year’s
workplan?
C) What factors enabled your school to make the progress you noted?
D) What were the obstacles to progress on the goals in this year’s workplan?
E) Given your experience with the workplan this year, what does your school
have to do to make next year’s workplan more effective?
F) Given your experience with the workplan this year, what does NAfET have to
do to make next year’s workplan more effective?
G) What suggestions do you have for improving the workplan?
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