Cobb County School District, GA - ALP

District Overview

Cobb County School District is driving change by building capacity in its educators and strengthening ties to the local community, identifying personal pathways to student success, and opening access and innovation to all learners. CCSD is currently implementing a district strategy that emphasizes “One Team, One Goal, Student Success.”

Since 2017, Dell Technologies, Cobb County and Advanced Learning Partnerships have collaborated closely to accomplish a range of tactical and highly strategic goals. Together, they have worked closely to create a personalized, formatively informed coaching model to document its impact on instructional decision-making. They have also worked with cabinet-level and senior leaders to envision the future landscape of learning and leadership for its learners and educators. In real-time, they are also working to address unique, critical challenges in preparation for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Key Services

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Esports Program

Innovation Launch

Leadership Learning Series

Trailblazer Cohorts

Competency Modeling

Strategic Planning

Dell Teaching and Learning Academy

Profile for Innovative Educators

Talent Development Systems

Highlights

Located outside Atlanta, GA
Second largest school district in Georgia and 23rd largest in the nation
Serves 113,000 students across 112 schools

District Timeline

Spring 2017 - Spring 2023

2023 - 2023

Program Impact

Working closely with Cobb InTech Leaders and TTIS , ALP's Organizational Development Team designed and implemented the first phase of a program evaluation plan to monitor InTech Team’s impact and progress toward grant program outcomes. The results of the impact study will empower the team to focus on high yield change initiatives.

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2022 - 2023

Learner-Centered Experience Design

Cohorts of teachers from schools focused on Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) developed a deep understanding of the CBL design, implementation and evaluation process. Companion experiences engaged TTIS in a comprehensive CBL design experience to become prepared to support teachers in the design and implementation of high-yield project-based learning.

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2022 - 2023

Esports Program

With a vision for a well-planned and effectively implemented esports program that would provide rigorous and enriching learning experiences for Cobb County learners, an advisory group engaged in a series of design sessions to develop a five year esports implementation plan to drive increased engagement in school and future success.

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2022 - 2023

Institutes

Institutes are designed to be interactive and collaborative, fostering a culture of continuous learning. ALP facilitators collaborated with leaders in Instructional Technology and STEM to equip educators with the latest research and best practices around high impact topics like grant writing, challenge based learning, generative AI and wellness.

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2021 - 2022

Talent Development Systems

Four years into the process, Cobb County TTIS continue to engage with their competency model to reflect on their practice, set specific competency-based goals, receive feedback from their with mentors and guides, and track their growth along with competency proficiency levels. As new TTIS join the team, ALP consultants support with orientation to the model and calibration around the resources available to support personal professional growth. The platform yields powerful trends in data that align with the individual and collective impact of the team.

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2021 - 2022

Dell Teaching and Learning Academy

A senior ALP consultant facilitated a sequence of whole-group, school-based and virtual coaching rounds for a cohort of Cobb County coaches throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. This form of collaborative and personalized professional learning enabled each participant to positively and sustainably impact their school communities. At the conclusion of the learning series, participants will earn Dell Mentor Certification.

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2021 - 2022

Facilitated Learning Experiences

The workforce of the future is rapidly changing and Cobb County educators appreciate the importance of providing learners with authentic opportunities that position them to be successful contributors. ALP collaborates with STEM and Innovation as they empower teachers and leaders at the Innovation Academies to amplify their impact through the awareness and application of current and emerging trends.

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2021 - 2022

Trailblazer Cohorts

A group of trailblazer teachers in Cobb County convene periodically to explore the future of work and consider the implications their findings have on teaching and learning. The sessions co-designed and co-facilitated by ALP provide teachers with strategies to help them apply technology and teaching practices that push the edges of innovation in education.

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2020 - 2021

Innovation Launch

Cobb County has wisely and incrementally invested in its technology infrastructure over multiple years. As such, it is relatively well-positioned in assisting educators, students and families in navigating the challenging landscape of the 2020-21 academic year. ALP and Dell Technologies are proud and honored to support this District as it scales dynamic formative assessments and a blended learning platform to support purposeful learning beginning in the fall of 2020. A combination of interrelated design and coaching-based projects will assist Cobb County leadership in serving teachers, school principals and coaches.

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2018 - 2021

Strategic Planning

ALP, Dell Technologies and the CCSD Instructional Technology team collaborated to develop a strategic framework including alignment of key priorities at the district, division (Technology Services), and team (Instructional Technology) levels. The strategic framework developed also included a deeper crosswalk of goals and outcomes for IDEA, PIE, and the team’s Digital Age Classroom learning model. This strategic planning framework set the direction to build an implementation plan in which team members identified each strategic priority’s objectives, timeline, milestones, project leads and teams, action steps, and required resources needed for successful implementation.

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2018 - 2021

Profile for Innovative Educators

The Profile for Innovative Educators (PIE) is a streamlined, job-embedded coaching framework and process that focuses on teaching innovation, learner agency and access, research and digital literacy, and professional growth and leadership. The common language framework is a collection of educator competencies that TTISs can refer to when supporting the transformation of a teacher's practice. PIE is a parallel framework to support teacher growth, like IDEA is to support TTIS growth. PIE provides longitudinal qualitative and quantitative evidence of the impact of coaching both in teacher competency development and growth of the coaching cohort over time.

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Articles

Refining Coaching Practices for Impact

2018 - 2021

Talent Development Systems

In order to apply the competency model as it relates to their daily work, ALP developed and integrated a platform-based talent development tool which allowed TTIS to reflect on their practice, set specific competency-based goals, receive feedback from their with mentors and guides, and track their growth along with competency proficiency levels. Each TTIS’s talent development data automatically fed to their dashboard and resulted in ongoing reflection, two-way communication with mentors and guides, and documentation of TTIS growth and progress.

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2017 - 2018

Competency Modeling

ALP led the development and validation of a competency model to identify, define, and align the job-required competencies and responsibilities of the TTIS coach with the goals and vision of the district. The study included review of CCSD strategy; interviews with the team’s leadership; alignment of a preliminary competency model with IDEA Competency Framework; and whole team focus groups to refine and finalize the resulting model. The model resulted in four major competency domains aligned with IDEA (Inspire, Design, Empower, Amplify) and corresponding behaviorally-anchored proficiency level descriptors for each competency.

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Advanced Learning Partnerships and Dell Technologies are proud partners in the ongoing professional learning support partnership with Cobb County School District.

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