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YEAR |
PROJECTS |
OUTCOMES |
1998
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(1) Research projects that became the framework for drafting the Five-year Stratgic Plan for Reform of the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS). *Orleans Parish Schools Classroom Observation by Dr. Peggy Kirby and a research team of educators from Xavier, SUNO, UNO and Dillard.
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(1) Developed the Help Prospectus to highlight the need for public education reform focused on stake holders in the district and community at large. Five-year Strategic Plan for Reform of NOPS 1999-2004
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| (2) Reeingneering Committees |
(2) Reengineering teams were assembled and made recommendations for 5 areas critical to student success: Safety & Security, Structure & Organization, Discipline, and Curriculum & Instruction. |
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(3) Organized the N.O. Education Council comprised of business and educational leaders, parents, principals and teachers |
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| (4) Orleans Parish School Board Retreat | (4) A retreat conducted in October 1998 led GNOEF and the OPSB to sign in November a Declaration of Intent to Reform. |
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1999 |
(1) Series of expert superintendent forums spotlighting best practices nationwide of three urban school districts (Chicago, Houston, and Long Beach) |
(1) Provided the Education Council with national best practices research of urban school systems |
(2) Turnaround Team appointed by Orleans Parish School Board |
(2) Reorganization Plan for central office administration |
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(3) Superintendent Selection Principles |
(3) Education Council provided the superintendent search committee with the selection criteria of the superintendent. |
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(4) CEO Surveys for teachers, parents, administrators, principals and residents of Orleans Parish |
(4) Provided critical insight to the superintendent regarding concerns of all participants surveyed. |
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2000 |
(1) Advertisement Campaign to rally support for public education reform and dismantle the negative barriers that threaten the city's recovery |
(1) 3,121 spots aired over the first flight of advertising. 64% of callers were interested in volunteering, 26% of callers expressed positive reactions to the Ads and 10% of the callers were racially motivated. |
(2) LEAP Summit 2000 |
(2) GNOEF collaborated with the Planning Committee to monitor and follow through with the LEAP volunteer initiative. |
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(3) Volunteer Recruitment Database |
(3) GNOEF developed an integrated Volunteer Database system to track and manage all volunteer information. NOPS staff was provided a user guide and adequate training |
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(4)Position Paper to strengthen university collaboration with NOPS |
(4) Provided a reform strategy to improve NOPS by collaborating with universities in Louisiana's Region One. |
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(5) Conceptual Design for the University/Interagency Collaborative The Great Connection |
(5) The design linked GNOEF in partnership with Dillard University, Loyola University, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Southern University at New Orleans, the Principals' Association of New Orleans Public Schools, and the United Teachers of New Orleans. |
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(6) University/Interagency Agreement |
(6) The Great Connection was developed and an agreement was produced to define the manner in which the parties of the Great Connection would interact to improve public education in the New Orleans Public Schools. |
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(7) Orleans Parish School Board District Profiles |
(7) Developed 7 district brochures that included all area schools to assist in recruiting and managing NOPS volunteers. |
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(8) Oracle W2 Remediation Project |
(8) GNOEF's executive director managed the production of 1999 W2's for NOPS 12,000 employees and recruited the help of Arthur Andersen after the Y2k Oracle installation failed. |
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(9) NOPS Communications Project |
(9) Developed a reorganization/press strategy plan for NOPS' Communications Department and provided public relations support for NOPS. |
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2001 |
(1) University Partnerships through The Great Connection targeted the nine lowest performing schools in the District, as identified by the District's chief academic officer. |
(1) Partner-universities were assisted by GNOEF as they provided professional development, resource personnel, and technical assistance to improve the performance of teachers and students. |
(2) Project THINK was developed to provide professional development to teachers to enable them to use a systematic step-by-step procedure for teaching students analytical, critical and creative thinking skills. |
(2) Participating teachers were taught to combine research-based classroom techniques and strategies for teaching students to become good thinkers, in order to engage them in thoughtful learning of the regular curriculum. |
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(3) Jefferson Parish Public Schools Financial Review |
(3) GNOEF secured resources to help underwrite an analysis of finances which led to a tax increase for teacher pay raises. |
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2002 |
(1) University Partnerships through The Great Connection |
(1) All nine schools (100%) reached the end of Cycle I, 2002 with an increase in their growth target; Seven of the nine schools (58%) met or exceeded their growth target, five of the nine (56% earned the growth label of Exemplary Academic Growth; two of the nine schools (22%) earned the growth label Minimum Academic Growth. Seven of the nine schools (78%) received rewards from the state and district for their improvement. |
(2) Project THINK Continued |
(2) GNOEF developed a training model and Title I provided a full-time facilitator to provide personnel training. A total of 9 schools, 151 teachers, and 1,930 students were serviced through Project THINK. |
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(3) Executive Management Training for School Administrators was formed with Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business and the Principals' Association of New Orleans Public Schools to provide leadership training to school site administrators. |
(3) An international trainer and professor of management conducted fourteen hours of training during three sessions. On a scale of 1-7, the 24 participants' average rating of the institute was 6.75. The principals unanimously requested GNOEF to provide additional training through A.B. Freeman School of Business. |
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(4) Proposal development to provide academic remediation in the areas of reading and mathematics to the secondary students functioning one or more grades below their academic placement as per the chief academic officer of New Orleans Public Schools. |
(4) A proposal for Project Earn While You Learn was submitted to and approved by the Workforce Investment Board to provide remediation in reading and mathematics and the development of career awareness activities to 110 middle school and high school students between the ages of 14-18 years old, and who met the qualifying criteria. |
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(5) Business Advisory Partnership with Arthur Andersen to produce a Compensation Study for NOPS |
(5) The study identified NOPS' compensation scale for financial and technical staff was 65% of the market. As a result NOPS adjusted compensation to recruit better qualified staff. |
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(6) Human Resources System's Data Clean-up was requested by the superintendent of NOPS and GNOEF conducted a Quality Assurance Review of the Oracle Human Resources Management System. |
6) A sample of 1,000 records/assignments of a population of 19,000 were reviewed and as a result, 82 employee records required updating such as leave, retirement, or active employment status and identified serious problems with the HR database. |
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2003 |
(1) Project Earn While You Learn Phase I and II were implemented and GNOEF provided contract development, negotiation and administration; project coordination and intense project assistance to the university and school-site coordinators; financial management; WEB Folio and reporting system; trouble shooting at individual sites; coordination of the pre-post testing; training of project personnel; and individual site visits to each partner university. |
(1) According to the project's evaluator, The average change in reading scores was 0.61, more than half a grade level within the 16-week period, and on the higher end of the project's targeted range (0.3 to 1.0). The mean change in math scores between the pre and post tests was 0.68, on the upper end of the program's target range (0.3 to 1.0) with a range from 0.7 to 3.7. According to the evaluator, The Earn While You Learn Program accomplished its goals. It is a model school administrators should examine when considering interventions to improve their students reading and math scores within a short intervention. |
(2) Human Resources System's Data Clean-up Phase Two focused on FY 2002-2003 Profile of Education Personnel (PEP), which was issued by the Louisiana Department of Education, identified 22,849 errors for NOPS |
(2) GNOEF developed a project plan and managed a district taskforce to correct the errors identified in the Oracle Human Resources Management Systems Database. Also provided project plan to accurately maintain the PEP related system. |
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2004 |
(1) Executive Management for School Administrators continued |
(1) GNOEF collaborated with Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business to provide an Executive Management Leadership Training for twenty-two New Orleans Public School principals. An international trainer and professor of management conducted three sessions during the spring of 2004. |
(2) Business Advisory Partnership |
(2) GNOEF's Business Advisory Partnership secured consulting services from Deliotte & Touche to improve business processes/workflows and internal controls in the areas of payroll, HR, purchasing, accounts payable, internal audit, compliance, and technology. GNOEF provided project oversight. |
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(3) University Collaborative Planning Grant Proposal |
(3) To develop an infrastruture for comprehensive school reform that will improve and enhance student achievement in three of the District's lowest performing schools. |
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2005 |
(1) NOPS' Business Operations Remediation Project |
(1) GNOEF's Executive Director is actively involved in the Legislative Auditor's Committee that assists NOPS. |
(2) Healthcare Program for NOPS |
(2) GNOEF was asked to assist in the reenrollment of employees in the Healthcare Program for NOPS in restructuring its business operations and practices. |
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(3) Host/Coordinate meetings for OPSB |
(3) OPSB Retreat with Gail Littlejohn on December 2-3, 2004. -Business Practices/Financial Update with Legis. Auditor, Postelwaite & Netterville, Bruno & Tervalon and Sen. Ed Murray on December 8, 2004 |
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(4) Host/Coordinate meetings for OPSB Cont. |
4) Sponsor OPSB Inauguration on January 10, 2005. -State Legislative Workshop facilitated by C.J. Blache on January 7, 2005 -Assisted Steve Theriot with State Agency Training Workshops on January 12 and 19, 2005. -BESE/DOE Training Workshop on January 28, 2005. -Legislative Breakfast with State Representatives, Senators, City Councilmember and Mayor on February 15, 2005. -UTNO Workshop with Dr. Brenda Mitchell on February 22, 2005. -Federal Workshop with U.S. Congressmen and US Senators (not scheduled at this time). |
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(5) Research for OPSB |
(5) Best Practices research on superintendent evaluations, annual budget reporting, compliance, internal/external general counsel, Board staff organization and evaluations. (On-going) -Compile a list of schools by district which identifies address, phone numbers, Board members, State Representatives, State Senators, City Councilmembers, U.S. Congressmen, and U.S. Senators. (List completed) |
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(6) Executive Management for School Administrators continued |
(6) GNOEF collaborated with Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business to provide an Executive Management Leadership Training for twenty-two New Orleans Public School principals. An international trainer and professor of management conducted three sessions during the spring of 2004. A session for spring 2005 is scheduled during the month of April. |
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(7) University Collaborative Planning Grant Proposal |
(7) To develop an infrastruture for comprehensive school reform that will improve and enhance student achievement in three of the District's lowest performing schools. |
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