Our Services

Meetings with Network Principals: Monthly meetings with a focus on school specific and network issues
Annual Leadership Retreat: 2-day event for all Internationalsâ€™ Network Principals
Cultivation of New Leaders: Through principal internships, intra-school leadership development, participation in advocacy efforts and networkwide leadership roles
Principal Mentor: Help the Principal and the school community navigate all aspects of leading and operating an International High School
- Internationals provides a Principal Mentor to each new school (for 4 years) and each new Principal (for 1-2 years)

Professional Development Events: Regional Summer Institutes for all faculty and staff, along with PD days during the school year
Teacher Toolkits: Provide support for incoming teachers in all discipline areas
Interschool Intervisitations: Monthly intervisitations to an International High School, open to all faculty
School based work: Internationals Networkâ€™s staff lead workshops and work individually with teachers, teams and school leaders
Model Documentation and Dissemination: Internationals Network compiles and disseminates documents and videos that explain different aspects of the approach with implementation strategies. (See Curriculum Development)

An alternative teacher certification program based on the urban teacher residency model
Certification of apprentice teachers in English as a Second Language by placing them with mentor teachers in International High Schools and engaging them in school-based projects
Documentation and Evaluation of outcomes to replicate on a larger scale

Collection and Development: Engage teams of teachers to identify outstanding curriculum units and facilitate the development of new ones to collect for our library
Knowledge Management: An online system to compile and post curriculum, articles, professional development workshops, and other documents that faculty can download and adapt for their own use
Requests for Proposals Process: Faculty from at least two International High Schools collaborate on projects that are curricular in nature and will benefit all High Schools

Development of Data System: Tracks students longitudinally from high school into college
Develop relationships with college reps and CBOs to support studentsâ€™ transition into, and success in college
Documentation and dissemination of best practices including: protocol for college visits, parent engagement, real-world internships, project-based curriculum design

New School Manual: Provides new school leaders with exemplars and guidance
Support in Start-Up Negotiations
Placement of a Coordinator of Special Programs in Years 1 & 2 in each new school
Ongoing advocacy with districts: On wide-ranging operational matters
Teacher Recruitment
Student Recruitment

Development and piloting a model, adapting the 25 year old model of serving linguistically diverse populations to create a school for students in immigrant communities that are not linguistically diverse, in response to changing demographic and local and national needs

Advocacy:
- Advocacy for the Internationals Approach as a successful model, expanding the portfolio of options for immigrant ELLs
- Coordination of network-wide advocacy efforts
- Participation in local, state and national convenings
External Relations:
- Visitor coordination assistance
- Intra-network communication through monthly newsletter
- Coordination of media outreach
- Support community relationship building at the school and network level
Research and Evaluation:
- Network-level evaluation
  Tracks the success of the Internationals network for continuous learning, fundraising and advocacy
- School-level evaluation
  Tracks the success of individual schools to allow teachers and school leaders to make data-driven decisions to improve school performance
- Third party evaluation
  Dissemination of best practices for external audience