Reimagining the Alliance Educator
Educators across the country are dealing with a burnout crisis, as the aftermath of COVID-19 has highlighted significant learning loss among scholars, and increased demands and stress on educators. Alarmingly, in the state of California, one in five teachers is now considering leaving the profession within the next three years. Alliance College-Ready Public Schools has been serving Los Angeles County for 20 years, and was founded on the belief that all children are capable of learning and achieving at high levels – regardless of their income level, ability, or socio-economic background. As one of the largest, most successful nonprofit public school networks in the nation, they are working to solve the teacher burnout problem with their innovative pilot program, Reimagining the Alliance Educator. Through an exhaustive, research based process, Alliance has more than doubled the planning time for teachers, and increased both academic intervention and enrichment opportunities for scholars across their pilot schools. Already it's making a big difference in the work-life balance of their teachers, and is directly impacting the lives of the scholars they serve. Hosted by Alliance VP of Network Initiatives Sonja Grant, this 8-part series features interviews with principals, teachers, and scholars from two middle schools and one high school who have piloted a new schedule change program tailored specifically for each school community. Follow the inspiring journey, and learn how your school can apply the lessons to reimagine education. * Reimagining the Alliance Educator: The Podcast is a Special Limited Series, produced by the Alliance College-Ready Public School’s Home Office team, with producer and writer Monique Madrid, Jass Stewart, and Sonja Grant. Sound and editing is done by Jacob Tummino and Travis Thompson. Pablo Villavicencio is Alliance’s CEO. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Host Sonja Grant talks to a principal, teacher, and scholars from Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4, in South L.A./Watts, to learn how the Reimagining the Alliance Educator pilot program is contributing to greater sustainability for teachers, and how in just the first year of piloting the program, we're already seeing better outcomes for our scholars.
Through the pilot program, Middle 4 implemented a 4+1 model, where tea...
In this episode we talk to the staff and scholars at Alliance Dr. Olga Mohan High School, the first high school to join the Reimagining the Alliance Educator pilot program. Starting in the school year 2024-25, Mohan will give their teachers not just one, but two planning periods daily, increasing planning time to 11 hours weekly.
To make this redesigned schedule work, the school has to be intentional in every step, including hiring ...
In this episode, we talk to the staff at Valera Middle Academy. Thanks to the Reimagining the Alliance Educator pilot, they can give their teachers double the planning time of past years.
Erik Carlstone and Jonathan Tiongco, Principal and Executive Director of Valera, learned that the program's success wouldn't be as simple as telling teachers they have more time, and expecting everything to work out on its own. They've had to...
In this episode, we learn how teachers don’t just need more time. It's equally important they have strong planning, observation, and feedback coaching systems in place.
We’re back with the staff of Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4. After testing a few different prototypes, they now give all their teachers a full remote planning day, every single week. They learned, through trial and error, that their planning time needs...
This week, we talk about how giving teachers expanded planning time gives schools an opportunity to add enrichment programs for their scholars. That’s exactly what Valera Middle Academy is doing.
Now, Valera’s teachers are now able dig deeper into lessons without having to worry about also teaching an elective course with a whole different set of scholars. Yes, this meant hiring additional teachers, but as Executive Director “JT” Ti...
We’re back at Middle Academy 4 discussing how the Reimagining the Alliance Educator pilot program is not just about academic outcomes. Importantly, it’s interconnected with the school’s culture as well. Principal Flores-Koops recommends schools have strong planning, observation, feedback, and collaboration structures in place to aid in the success. In her experience, it’s had a significant impact on both empowering scholars aca...
We’re back at Valera Middle Academy diving into the details of the cost and budget of the Reimagining the Alliance Educator pilot program. Though it is expensive, and takes a lot of work, so far everyone we’ve spoken to agrees it’s well worth the investment. Our scholars are enjoying their time at school more, and this in-part is leading to them seeing better academic results. And our teachers are reporting finding more fulfillment...
In our season finale, the staff at Alliance Dr. Olga Mohan High School discuss the programmatic costs they’ve added in order to support the Reimagining the Alliance Educator pilot. Besides bringing on an additional teacher to keep class sizes down, they’re turning to the strong partnership they have with L.A. Trade Tech, so they can direct scholars towards the dual enrollment courses they’re now able to offer.
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