TEACH PLUS News:

ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico’s school and system leaders will gather Friday, July 14, for Teach Plus’s #NMOutcomesThroughInnovation convening to learn from seven public schools across the state whose innovative approaches, rooted in their communities’ needs, are improving teaching and learning.

Through the convening and the accompanying report, Teach Plus is bringing these schools and New Mexico’s education community together to facilitate the learning of innovations and best practices and their adoption across schools and districts in the state. 

Teach Plus’s innovation work focuses on holistically understanding New Mexico’s students and communities and listening to the teachers who serve them on a daily basis.

For the 2023 report and convening, Teach Plus identified seven innovative schools in three categories:

• Innovative instructional practices: Practices focused on student-centered, individualized instruction designed to increase student engagement and ownership of their learning. (Gallup High School, Loma Linda Elementary, VOZ Collegiate Preparatory Charter School)

• Innovative support systems: Systems focused on developing effective educators and providing differentiated, targeted support based on teachers’ needs. (Gilbert Sena Charter High School, Mesa Middle School)

• Innovative family or community engagement practices: Practices that move beyond opportunities for passive involvement to active and consistent engagement of families and communities in contributing to students’ learning and shaping the school community. (Amy Biehl High School, Chaparral Elementary, VOZ Collegiate Preparatory Charter School)

WHO:

• Kira Orange Jones, CEO, Teach Plus  
• Hope Morales and Aimee Parra, Teach Plus New Mexico
• Howie Morales, New Mexico Lt. Governor
• Isaac Rivas-Savell, Founder and Director, VOZ Collegiate Preparatory
• Representatives from the seven schools presenting their innovations and leading sessions
• Local school, district and state Leaders

WHEN: Friday, July 14

• 12- 5:30 p.m.
  Keynote: Kira Orange Jones, CEO, Teach Plus 
  Break out sessions: Learn and engage in innovations 
  From Forgotten to Innovator: Isaac Rivas-Savell, Founder and Director, VOZ Collegiate Preparatory
• 6-8 p.m.
  Welcome: Howie Morales, New Mexico Lt. Governor
  Panel discussion and dinner: The Imperative of Innovation
  Celebration of Innovative Schools

WHERE:

• Embassy Suites, 1000 Woodward Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 

About Teach Plus

The mission of Teach Plus is to empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that affect their students’ success. In pursuing this mission, Teach Plus is guided by the Student Opportunity Mandate: All students should have the opportunity to achieve their potential in an education system defined by its commitment to equity, its responsiveness to individual needs, and its ability to prepare students for postsecondary success. teachplus.org

For more information, a detailed agenda, and to RSVP, contact Anya Grottel-Brown, agrottelbrown@teachplus.org 917.902.5902