Format: Onsite & Virtual • Duration: Varies

Prior to launching the NTN Model at your school, an NTN school design expert will work closely with your leadership team to design and support the New Tech Network Model implementation within your school community. This support includes:

• School Design and Implementation consulting: customized planning support from our experts and access to NTN proprietary planning resources and project and content libraries.
• Planning and Implementation support: monthly 1:1 planning calls with the school leadership team and stakeholders to build readiness toward NTN implementation.

Your NTN consultant will spend a minimum of one onsite day to be customized to meet the needs of the school. Activities may include a/an:

• NTN Executive Tour: guided tour at an NTN school to provide the opportunity to visit classrooms, talk with teachers, students, and school and district leaders.
• Planning Visit: an onsite visit from an NTN Director of School Development to engage stakeholders, raise awareness, and assess progress toward implementing the NTN Model

NTN has cultivated a set of resources that help schools with different aspects and phases of implementation. Our School Success Rubric can be used to assess the current state of a school and measure it towards the changes that it wants to make by adopting the NTN model. The resources available in NTN Help Center and in the NTN Project Library can be utilized during the induction phase of the planning year to create a pathway that ensures success in each of the four focus areas of the School Success Rubric: Outcomes, Culture, Instruction, and Assessment.

Visiting existing NTN campuses can be a concrete way to understand the work of the NTN Model and can be an inspiration for schools that are beginning their journey to project based learning. We find that tours are best suited for community teams of approximately 10-15 individuals. While each community team is different, we recommend district and school staff include a mix of campus leadership, district leadership, and classroom educators. When building community understanding and support, it can also be helpful to include business leaders, community members, economic development organizations, school board members and others who would benefit from seeing NTN’s model firsthand.  Your team will have a chance to visit classrooms, talk with students, teachers, and leaders, and uncover the effectiveness of NTN’s school model on your own. 

Designed specifically for the New Tech Principal/Director and accompanying leadership team members, the NTN Leadership Institute is aimed at preparing school leaders for the work of supporting New Tech Network implementation. Leadership Institute is a series of virtual 1-on-1 meetings (one coach and one school leadership team) as well as larger, new school, cohort-based meetings. These begin just ahead of each school’s NTN Residency event and extend until the end of the calendar year. These connected learning experiences will provide your leadership team with helpful resources and guidance to support the implementation of the New Tech Network Model at your site. 

The purpose of NTN Residency is to provide school teams an introduction to the NTN Model, in service of considering what school transformation might look like in your specific context and what implementing the NTN Model will require of the team. Your school team will walk away from Residency with a refined vision for your school, your students, and your staff culture while obtaining an initial taste of PBL.