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Welcome to the RISC Wiki Pages
The Wiki portion of our website is used by RISC, its coalition members and other interested individuals to view and work on collaborative documents. This is a collaborative electronic environment that allows anyone who desires to participate, comment, contribute, and provide feedback. Wiki content should be considered works in progress. While viewing these pages expect to find spelling errors, dead links, and half completed projects and know that this is OK.
At RISC we believe in the power of involving all stakeholders and we encourage you to look around and find out how you can contribute to a growing community of individuals interested in creating new school systems that allow students to receive instruction at their level, empowers students to progress through the system when they are ready, and greatly increase levels of student engagement through participation in the process.
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RISC Overview
RISC Mission Statement
The Re-Inventing Schools Coalition creates lighthouse districts that meet the needs of all children by facilitating educational systems to:
* Develop a shared vision based on the needs of all stakeholders * Ensure shared leadership is deployed. * Implement a relevant standards-based design that incorporates "best practices." * Build a continuous improvement process that leads to excellence. * Use web-based, relational databases to analyze processes and results
RISC Model Explained
"The RISC Schools Model (RSM) brings together all stakeholders as a learning community to create and then continuously refine a system that improves the educational experience of EACH individual student, allowing them to reach their full potential, through standards and assessments that are authentic, challenging, fair and consistent. RSM causes systemic and sustainable changes to the educational process resulting in learning communities."
- More information
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment Glossary
- Quicktime Overview of the RISC Model
- About the RISC Model
- Rich DeLorenzo's New to the Model Powerpoint
- Rich DeLorenzo's RISC Story Powerpoint
- More resources can be found in Moodle
Four Components
Essentially the RISC Model is composed of four components: Shared Vision, Leadership, Standards-Based Design, and Continuous Improvement. Each of these elements is an essential aspect of a model designed to create systemic changes in education as we understand it today.
Shared Vision: Stakeholders driving systemic change
Leadership: Leadership capacity for all stakeholders
Standards-Based Design: Innovative learning is the constant, time is the variable
Continuous Improvement: Refining processes that foster excellence
The RISC Story
Organization Development Opportunities
POPE Description
Purpose, Outcomes, Process, Evaluation Activity:
| PURPOSE | WHY? Agree on and document the reason for the Task and what the team is seeking to achieve.. | |
| OUTCOMES | WHAT? Determine and document the specific objectives or results members of the team want to see at the end of the process. |
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| PROCESS | HOW? Determine and document how the team will go about achieving the agreed outcomes from the previous step, including agenda and time lines. | |
| EVALUATION | HOW WELL DID WE DO? Discuss and agree on how team effectiveness will be measured. |
This will be the format for describing all of the Organizational Development Opportunities. View descriptions of these services here.
Evaluation Processes and Tools
Below you will find a variety of tools used by RISC and other organizations to evaluate their implementation of the RISC model. You will also find more specific Internal evaluation tools for activities such as:
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment Glossary
- Online RISC Organizational Self-Assessment
- RISC on site visits.
- Single or multiple day on site staff development presentation
Courses and Credits
At the Serious Systemic School Reform Conference in Denver last month we announced our first online course offering. RISC will be teaching Standards-Based Instruction through UAF Northwest Campus. The first class, in a growing series of classes, allows educators to investigate past and present trends in school reform, examine the change process, explore the debate surrounding standard-referenced and standards-based reform, and interact with tools and processes for implementing the essential components for performance-driven systemic change.
This would be an excellent course for those individuals interested in learning more about Standards-based/Performance-based systems or for new teachers and administrators working for Coalition Districts.
Course Details: Standards-Based Instruction 3 Credits ED539 T • 4pm – 5:30pm • 09/04/07 – 12/18/07 NWC • DISTANCE (Audio conference and Moodle): This course will require 3 hours a week during the semester, having mostly online assignments, forums and chats. It will be supported by a weekly 90-minute audio conference. Course fee of $260 is payable to the coalition.
For additional info on the class starting this fall contact Rick Holt
In the future, we will be offering credit for all symposiums and training opportunitie. Progress has been made on developing the second and third in the series of courses being introduced to support various stages of implementing the model. We hope to release the 2nd and 3rd online courses Jan of 2008.
More info on additional Courses and Credits...
Resources
New Districts
- RISC School Model Definition
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment Glossary
- Implementation Defining the RISC Model
- Credit Waiver Update 2000 Sample
- Credit Waiver Update Template
- Coalition Criteria
- Moodle
- What's On Our Bookshelf
Existing Districts- The following resources are for the coalition districts who are in the process or have completed implementing the RISC model.
- Sample Reimbursement Form to help guide you through the Reimbursement process
- Reimbursement Template All district reimbursements must have action plans and deliverables sent with your district reimbursement request. Use this template when submitting your reimbursement requests.
- Action Plans Use these action plan templates to assist in planning organizational movement along the RISC Continuum.
Quality Tools and Processes- The following resources are currently being deployed by RISC and Coalition Districts to gather input from a variety of stakeholders, collect and analyze data, increase efficiency and formalize processes.
Follow this link to tools and processes.
Waiver Information
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment
- RISC Organizational Self-Assessment Glossary
- RSM Organizational Check Up Survey
- RSM Individual Check Up Survey
- Wiki Coalition Resources
- Moodle
Conferences
The Re-Inventing Schools Coalition has been organizing and running educational conferences in Alaska for many years. Below will find links to recourse for a few but not all of the most recent conferences.
You will find additional conference resources as well well as general news on our News FORUM and announcements, updates and discussions from across the coalition on the RISC Model FORUM. When viewing the Model forum you will be asked to create a username and password to login. We suggest you go for it. Its free and easier than shopping online :)
