coe-staff: ORSN update and gratitude

Tue Feb 5 13:35:13 PST 2019

Dear Colleagues,

It has been a year since we have launched the Oregon Research Schools Network (ORSN) under the leadership of Nancy Golden, Sol Joye, and many others working in the background including, Chris Krabiel, Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, Leslie Martinez, and Deidre Sandvick, among many other school district and university faculty and staff. This email is intended to provide both an update on progress, and to acknowledge all of the faculty that have contributed to the success of ORSN during the early implementation phase.

As our faculty work with our Courtesy Clinical Assistant Professors to make advances at our four high schools (Roosevelt High School in PPS, North Eugene High School, Coquille High School and Pendleton High School), we continue to learn about what makes ORSN unique and impactful. The courtesy faculty members have identified their site-specific problems of practice, developed focus areas for educator professional development, partnered with UO faculty, and collected early planning and implementation data. I have attached a handout from Nancy and Sol that provides more information about each of these areas of progress.

While Nancy and Sol have been building and refining a networked improvement community among the four high schools, development of the ORSN Improvement Model continues in collaboration with several faculty members.

The ORSN is fundamentally about UO faculty and researchers working in partnership with high school faculty to bridge the research to practice gap, increase student academic achievement, improve their behavioral and emotional outcomes, and increase high school graduation and post-secondary education participation and completion rates.

On behalf of Nancy, Sol, and myself, we truly appreciate the many faculty who have engaged with the ORSN collaborative this first year and want to acknowledge some of their contributions:

  *   Jerry Tindal facilitated the establishment of courtesy appointments in EMPL for the ORSN Courtesy Assistant Clinical Professor at each high school, authored grant proposals with Nancy and Sol, helped develop the Logic Model and participated in the research design.
  *   Benedict McWhirter is working with Hillsboro SD on their Culture of Care Model and conducting needs assessments in their high schools. Hillsboro SD seeks to become an ORSN school district in the future.
  *   Jeff Todahl, Julie Heffernan and Tina Gutierez-Schmich presented to school leaders at Hillsboro SD on trauma-informed practices.
  *   Ellen McWhirter contributed Dreamer content for early ORSN digital micro-professional development module samples.
  *   Jenny Ruef is working with ODE and will be working with an ORSN school to catalyze change in secondary mathematics. Jenny will be working on the "algebra ceiling" problem of practice.
  *   Mark Van Ryzin consulted on a student exit survey for Coquille High School. He is currently working with them to incorporate cooperative learning into classroom instruction to increase student engagement.
  *   Joe Nese is leading the comprehensive evaluation of the ORSN Model.
  *   Chris Murray, John Seeley, Christine Knowles, James Sinclair, and Jeff Gau from the Center on Human Development have joined forces with ORSN to partner on the continued development of the ORSN Improvement Model, including an examination of the skills teachers and school personnel need to implement each component, the development of practitioner training modules, and other tools that could be used to facilitate the implementation and evaluation of the model.
  *   President Schill has partnered with me to raise donor and other funds needed to expand the number of high schools served by ORSN.
  *   Dane Ramshaw and the Global and Online Education unit are providing a robust and secure online content management system that allows ORSN teacher leaders to virtually meet weekly in order to collaborate and make progress on the improvement network, while seamlessly bridging the geographic divide of Oregon.

There is much work to do. Having been involved in many research university and K-12 partnerships over the decades - Early College, University Laboratory School, Professional Development Schools, and urban school partnerships among others - I am keenly aware of the skill and effort needed to design, deploy, evaluate, and continuously improve a new partnership framework.

For the work to date and that to come, I am most grateful. And, I wish us all success with the ORSN.

Randy
C Offices of the President, Provost, UO Foundation, Communications, and Government Relations

For scheduling, please contact Maggie Bosworth at  magboz at uoregon.edu<mailto:%20magboz at uoregon.edu> or 541-346-6467.
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