Alumni Refresh

Program Participants

Over the last few years, many Relay alumni have expressed the desire to “do Relay again”, both to refresh their skills and to learn new, updated content. The Alumni Refresh is for Relay alumni who completed the National Principal Academy Fellowship (NPAF), the National Principal Supervisors Academy (NPSA), or the Instructional Leadership Professional Development (ILPD). Schools and organizations will find it beneficial to send new participants to Instructional Leadership Academies and returning participants to the Alumni Refresh in the same year, so they can engage and implement the content as a team for greater alignment and impact.

Program Focus

Relay is always striving to make our content stronger. Here is an overview of how each strand of content has been updated in recent years: 

• Weekly Planning Meetings: In the summer of 2021, Relay introduced Weekly Planning Meetings sessions differentiated by English Language Arts and Math content. The Weekly Planning Meeting strand offers some of our most rigorous content, focusing on planning for instruction that ensures students tackle the most productive struggle in a lesson, engage in meaningful discourse, and master core content. 
• Leading an Equity-Centered Culture: Going into School Year 2020-2021, our culture strand had significant revisions with the goal of centering equity and being more responsive to students’ needs. The strand now includes sessions on understanding behavior through an equity lens, student-centered, school-wide supports, and staff culture.  
• Strategic Planning and Playbook sessions: In School Year 2017-2018, Relay launched its current version of Strategic Planning and Playbooks. Every year these sessions have been revised  and strengthened, but the core philosophy of using our student-centered goals to drive daily work has remained the same.
• Coaching Adults: Observation and Feedback is a core content session that has stayed true to its original roots; however, it now also includes building relationships with teachers as a key element in coaching. Sessions across the year include new content on Differentiating Coaching and Coaching on Coaching. 
• Weekly Data Meetings: The core of Weekly Data Meetings remains the same with an increased focus on content specific knowledge. This remains to be some of Relay’s strongest content with strong alignment to K-12 student achievement.
  

Program Experience

Alumni Refresh participants are welcome to attend sessions for their respective programs. (Summer Intensive and Intersessions for NPAF and NPSA; Summer Intensive only for ILPLD). After a mandatory summer Orientation, they have the opportunity to engage in the sessions that are most helpful to their current work. Alumni Refresh participants do not participate in Learning Teams or submit assessments but may choose to participate in the Triathlon following Summer Intensive. 

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‍Alumni may only attend sessions in the program they have completed; for example, NPAF alumni can only attend NPAF sessions.

About Partnership

What makes a great partnership? Learn more about what kind of organizations we work with and how we support them in Conditions for Effective Partnership.

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