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In the meantime, take a look at these overviews and frameworks.
A Brief Look at the Success & Innovation Center
via the NEA Foundation Horace Mann Award for Teaching Excellence 2019
WMTW Channel 8 Community Champion March 2019 Article & Video
WGME 13 / MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Forward Thinking March 2019 Video & Article
FOLOW the SUCCEt MT BLUE CAMPUS on FACEBOOK
SUCCESS & INNOVATION CENTERS
THREE KEY PURPOSES
- Academic, social-emotional, and post-secondary coaching for learners
- Instructional and professional coaching for faculty and staff
- Fostering access to 21st century learning and teaching opportunities for all members of the school community
MISSION
A Success and Innovation Center exists to provide a human-centered, empathy-driven problem solving studio for all students, faculty and staff. Much as the library supports open access to information, a SIC supports open access to multiple pathways for achieving one’s academic, social-emotional and professional aspirations. Through a balance of coaching, advocacy, and outreach, a SIC empowers learners students to discover and create solutions to the challenges they face, while building capacity of faculty and staff to provide increasingly effective and innovative instruction. As a result of the SIC, learners and staff become more resilient problem solvers, more resourceful critical thinkers, and more capable contributors to a 21st century world of work.
ROLE of the DIRECTOR
The Success and Innovation Center (SIC) Director collaborates with students and faculty:
- To identify needs and design solutions to meet those needs
- To demonstrate content area standards and habits of work
- To facilitate connections to resources throughout the school and greater communities
- To provide support and advocacy for non-traditional pathways to high school graduation and post-secondary opportunities.
The number of students who graduate high school on time and engage in post-secondary opportunities should increase as a result of the efforts of the SIC Director
ROLE of the ED TECH
- To manage the day to day operations of the physical Success & Innovation Center including student usage, learning materials, and space organization
- To provide social-emotional support and learning for students who are struggling to maintain successful pathways
- To manage and collate data related to the use of the Success & Innovation Center
- To assist the SIC Director in achieving the defined purposes and mission of the Success & Innovation Center