Overview
The Competency Collaborative (CC) is an active community of public schools across New York City, serving K-12 grades. We are a program of NYC Public Schools.
There are several membership options: Living Lab, Incubator, and Active Member. We also maintain a Friends of CC interest group.
MAP KEY: Living Lab - purple, Active Member - navy, Incubator - green, Elementary - turquoise
Overview
The Competency Collaborative (CC) is an active community of public schools across New York City, serving K-12 grades. We are a program of NYC Public Schools.
There are several membership options: Living Lab, Incubator, and Active Member. We also maintain a Friends of CC interest group.
MAP KEY: Living Lab - purple, Active Member - navy, Incubator - green, Elementary - turquoise
Living LaB
Living LaB
CC Living Lab Schools are implementing effective student-centered, culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based learning schoolwide. Living Lab schools:
serve as models for the community and beyond, take an active and open-door role that includes hosting visits, offering professional development, and sharing ideas, models, practices, processes, and resources
collaborate with CC program team to design and present professional learning for the community and beyond
design, implement, and document work on goals that provide innovative solutions/improvements to aspects of mastery-based, culturally responsive-sustaining teaching and learning systems
contribute to a library of shared community resources: sets of learning outcomes, rubrics, curriculum units, grading practices, and the like
convene a team of admins and educators who meet regularly to lead work on the school’s MC goals, with support from the program team
Current CC Living Lab Schools
MS 250: West Side Collaborative MS
Pan American International HS at Monroe
Incubator
Incubator
CC Incubator schools focus intently on building/improving school-wide mastery and culturally responsive-sustaining approaches and systems. Incubator members receive intensive support for 2-3 years, as they work toward effective school-wide implementation of mastery and CRSE. Incubator schools:
engage in an ongoing, intensive school change process, with guidance and support from CC program team and community
participate actively in the CC community by attending school visits and professional learning sessions
design, implement, and document work on goals that provide innovative solutions/improvements to aspects of mastery-based, culturally responsive-sustaining teaching and learning systems
convene a team of admins and educators who meet regularly to lead work on the school’s CC goals, with support from the program team
Current CC Incubator schools
Bronx Collaborative High School
Charles O. Dewey Middle School 136
Manhattan Academy for Arts and Language
Robert Van Wyck Middle School 217
South Bronx Academy for Applied Media
The Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women
The Urban Assembly Unison School
Active Members
Active Members
Active Member schools are piloting or implementing a mastery system schoolwide or in at least one grade or one department—and are working toward effective schoolwide implementation of mastery and cultural responsive-sustaining approaches and systems. Active Member schools:
participate actively in the CC community by attending school visits and professional learning sessions
design, implement, and document work on goals that provide innovative solutions/improvements to aspects of mastery-based, culturally responsive-sustaining teaching and learning systems
convene a team of admins and educators who meet regularly to lead work on the school’s CC goals, with support from the program team
have access to and contribute to a library of shared community resources: sets of learning outcomes, rubrics, curriculum units, grading practices, and the like
Current MC Active Member schools:
Academy for Careers in Television and Film
Academy for Software Engineering
Bronx Academy for Software Engineering
Bronx High School for Writing and Communication
Brooklyn HS for Excellence and Equity
Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School for the Arts
East Bronx Academy for the Future
ELLIS Preparatory Academy for the Future
International HS at Prospect Heights
Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School
Mark Twain Intermediate School IS 239
Marsh Avenue Expeditionary Learning School
Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice
NYC Lab School For Collaborative Studies
The Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx
Elementary Cohort
Elementary Cohort
Schools in the Elementary cohort are exploring and working towards implementing a competency system schoolwide or in at least one grade or one department—and are working toward effective schoolwide implementation of mastery and cultural responsive-sustaining approaches and systems. Elementary cohort schools:
attend professional learning community (PLC) sessions throughout the year
participate actively in the CC community by attending school visits and quarterly meetings
design, implement, and document work on goals that provide innovative solutions/improvements to aspects of mastery-based, culturally responsive-sustaining teaching and learning systems
have access to and contribute to a library of shared community resources: sets of learning outcomes, rubrics, curriculum units, grading practices, and the like
Current CC Elementary schools:
PS/MS 19, Bronx: The Judith K. Weiss Woodlawn School
P.S. 67, Brooklyn: The Charles A. Dorsey School
PS 68, Staten Island: Port Richmond School for Visionary Learners
PS 96, Bronx: The Richard Rodgers School
PS 121, Bronx: The Throop School
PS 134, Manhattan: Henrietta Szold School