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STRATEGIC GOAL I: To change the public and political perception of secondary schooling by overturning the traditional conception of a school building as the sole location of learning, and the traditional school day/week/year as the only time learning can occur, and replacing them with a universal commitment to equitable, personalized, and rigorous “anytime-anywhere” learning delivered through a variety of flexible, student-designed pathways.
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY #1: Members of the NESSC Council and leadership teams will actively support NESSC strategies and goals in their spheres of influence, and the NESSC will support Council members and other state leaders by providing support for specific policies aligned with the NESSC regional policy agenda
MILESTONES STATUS

NESSC will host three in-person and three video cross-state meetings of the Council. In person meetings will be held in August 2011, December 2011, and April 2012; video meetings will be held in October 2011, February 2012, and June 2012.
Indicator of Completion: Agenda, materials, and summaries for each meeting will be posted on the internal NESSC website. (GSP, liaisons)

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NESSC commissioners will meet over dinner the evening before the three in-person Council meetings.
Indicator of Completion: Attendance at, notes from, and commitments identified at these meetings. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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Each state will host six in-state NESSC Council meetings or conference calls in July 2011, September 2011, November 2011, January 2012, March 2012, and May 2012.
Indicator of Completion: Summaries from each meeting will be posted on the internal NESSC website. (liaisons)

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NESSC Leads and Liaisons, and GSP staff, will support Council members and encourage them to make public statements of support for the NESSC’s regional policy agenda.
Indicator of Completion: Documentation of sponsored policies, editorials, testimony, public statements in news articles, etc. (leads, liaisons)		 UNDERWAY +
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The NESSC will develop a series of talking points and other documents that present compelling arguments for the strategies and policies represented in the NESSC regional policy agenda by November 2011, while also collecting documentation of high-leverage policies and their impact in each state for exchange across state lines.
Indicator of Completion: A series of talking points and documents in support of NESSC policies; an online archive of HLP-related documents and reports. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY #2: Findings from early communications strategies, focus-group studies, and education messaging research will be used to inform and shape secondary reform messaging across the five states, particularly in terms of the specific language and framing strategies used by SEAs when describing policies, state initiatives, and school-improvement goals.
MILESTONES STATUS
SEA communication directors will meet at least four times to discuss messaging and align SEA and NESSC communications. The group will meet in September 2011, December 2011, March 2012, and June 2012. The GSP director of communications will also maintain monthly contact with each communications office by phone. 
Indicator of Completion: Agendas and meeting summaries. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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The NESSC will produce a comprehensive set of messaging recommendations based on proven communications strategies, NESSC-supported focus-group studies, and education messaging research that will be used to guide or inform both SEA and NESSC communications going forward.
Indicator of Completion: The completed messaging guide. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY #3: Each state will have a vibrant and sustainable community- or business-driven advocacy organization focused on education issues and secondary reform that will officially endorse the goals and strategies of the NESSC by June 2012.
MILESTONES STATUS
The NESSC will meet with the leadership of existing business roundtables and community organizations to discuss formalizing an education-advocacy mission and/or providing an endorsement of or support for the NESSC and its regional policy agenda by March 2012.
Indicator of Completion:  Documentation and written summaries from each meeting; documentation of any formal agreements or public statements of support for the NESSC. (leads, liaisons)		 UNDERWAY +
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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY #4: The NESSC will develop, design, and disseminate public documents and resources designed to raise awareness and understanding of secondary innovation and the NESSC goals, strategies, and policies that specifically target New England’s educational and political leaders to maximize regional impact.
MILESTONES STATUS
The first installment of eight Leadership in Action briefings will have been sent biweekly to 5,000 recipients by July 2011
Indicator of Completion: Archived briefs and companion documents on Leadership in Action public website. (GSP)		 COMPLETED
The Leadership in Action website will be redesigned by September 2011 to allow for the ongoing publication of the series as needed, and the NESSC will publish at least six additional briefs by June 2012.
Indicator of Completion: Redesigned Leadership in Action website; publication and distribution of six additional briefs. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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A new League of Innovative Schools website, or expansion of the existing NESSC website to encompass League activities, will be completed by December 2011. The website will not only serve as the public presentation of the League, but it will directly support Implementation Strategy #4 by presenting school-specific innovations to regional, national, and global audiences.
Indicator of Completion: Website launched and populated with public profiles of participating member schools. (GSP)

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A new secure online community will be created for the League of Innovative Schools by March 2012. The secure site will feature League member action plans, the results of their Global Best Practices review, performance data, and a variety of additional information and resources that will foster regional networking, exchange, and school visits. Each member school will be given secure access and the site will function as a benefit of League membership. Indicator of Completion: Secure website launched and populated with profiles of participating member schools. (GSP) UNDERWAY +
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The NESSC will add an additional 1,000 contacts to its email database by June 2012.
Indicator of Completion: Total number of contacts in the NESSC database will total at least 6,000. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY #5: The five member states will begin reporting data on student attainment in a common way using the NESSC metrics, and League of Innovative Schools members will begin using NESSC metrics to report on performance in a common way across the region.
MILESTONES STATUS
All five NESSC states will make a formal agreement to publicly report secondary performance data using the NESSC metrics by October 2011.
Indicator of Completion:  Formal written agreements from the commissioners. (leads)		 UNDERWAY +
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The NESSC data team will reach agreement on the calculation methodology and specific components of a college-readiness metric and submit related data by June 2012.
Indicator of Completion: Methodology for calculating the college-readiness metric finalized; data collected from all five states. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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League members will collect and submit student data related to the NESSC metrics.
Indicator of Completion: Data reports from League schools. (liaisons)

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The NESSC will develop data collection resources to facilitate League data collection, performance reporting, and data-driven school improvement by June 2012. Initial resources will include guidance and electronic templates, with the intention of moving toward and developing a common, secure online database and reporting system.
Indicator of Completion: Data collection resources completed, distributed to all League members, and archived online. (GSP)		 UNDERWAY +
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RESOURCES

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