Navigator Elementary Math Application for the School Year

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1 Navigator Elementary Math Application for the School Year GENERAL INFORMATION Applications are due on January 31. Candidates will be notified if they have been selected for an initial phone interview. In person interviews and site visits will be d in Spring 2018 If you have any questions about this application, please contact Jeff House at JeffHouse@achievementfirst.org. To submit your application, please as attachments or upload all requested materials to a Google Drive folder and share your folder with JeffHouse@achievementfirst.org with editing permissions. PART I: CANDIDATE INFORMATION Principal Name Principal contact information Phone: Math leader name Math leader title Math leader contact information Phone: School-based math leader name and title Number of years you have been at this school Race or ethnicity (optional) Name of school Name of district or charter network (leave blank if you are a single-site charter Principal: Principal: Math leader: Math leader:

2 school) Address Office phone number Name of current math program(s) you are using Please select which option for participation you would prefer If you select Math Stories only Math Stories only - must implement in at least 2 grades (schools continue to use their existing math lessons); grades curriculum) K-1 lessons (with option to add weekly quizzes) 2-4 lessons (with option to add weekly quizzes) K-4 lessons (with option to add weekly quizzes) Do you currently have (or will you be able to put in place for ) four 20 min sessions per week for Math Stories in the grades you selected? Yes, we have this in place this year No, we do not have this in place this year, but will be able to adjust our No, we do not have this in place this year and will not be able to adjust our If you selected math lessons only Do you currently have (or will you be able to put in place for ) the minimum minutes available in the for the grades you intend to work with? K-1: at least four 45 min sessions/wk 2-4: at least four 55 min sessions/wk available in the Yes, we have this in place this year No, we do not have this in place this year, but will be able to adjust our No, we do not have this in place this year and will not be able to adjust our Names and grades of teachers who will participate in the program: Teacher name Grade he/she currently teaches Is grade departmentalized by subject area?

3 PART II: ESSAY QUESTIONS Please prepare written essay responses to each of the questions below. In each instance, please provide specific examples to illustrate key points. Your responses should also include reflections on lessons learned. Please respond with approximately 250 word responses. Section 1: Questions for the Principal 1. What are the key successes and key challenges you face at your school? What is your greatest lesson learned as a leader over the past year? 2. Please tell us about a time when you attempted to implement a new program or institute a change (at your current school or in previous roles) and it was NOT successful. What is your assessment of why this effort failed? What did you learn from this experience? Section 2: Questions for the math leader 1. Why are you interested in participating in Navigator? What would constitute success in your mind at the end of Year 1? 2. Please tell us about a time when you attempted to implement a new program or institute a change (at your current school or in previous roles) and it was NOT successful. What is your assessment of why this effort failed? What did you learn from this experience? 3. What do you think will be the biggest challenge for you and the teachers involved in the program in adopting the Achievement First approach to elementary math?

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5 PART III: DATA TO SUBMIT Please complete the attached data template with student achievement results, by grade, in math and ELA for the school year and respond to the following questions: Is the data what you expected? Why or why not? What, if anything, concerns you about this data? What are the key ways you have acted on the year-end achievement data this year? If your school uses MAP, please submit the standardized MAP report for all grades tested from your most recent assessment. If your school does not use MAP, please submit the standardized report and explanation of results for the assessment used for all grades tested. Please submit a current resume for your principal and math leader. Please have a conversation with the principal's supervisor and have that person sign the attached agreement to confirm their support for your participation in the program.