Beacon Network Schools

The Beacon Network Schools Innovation Zone (Beacon Zone) empowers Beacon Schools with collective flexibilities and resources; support for teachers and leaders to learn together, grow, and excel; and community ownership and involvement. The Beacon Zone helps Beacon Network Schools to codify the Beacon Model and sustain it in order to improve outcomes for students. Zone Alignment: Beacon Network Schools, currently including Grant Beacon Middle School & Kepner Beacon Middle School, share common vision, mission, and values. All Beacon Schools have common instructional practices, data team systems, culture development, and enrichment programming. The Beacon Zone ensures that Beacon Schools uphold the Beacon vision, mission, and values and implement common practices by monitoring implementation and outcomes, gathering community input on programming, and supporting and evaluating the Executive Director. The Beacon Zone will provide shared services to Beacon Network Schools to support teacher and leader empowerment, shared learning across schools, and increased amount of resources to schools. By leveraging the talents of top-performing staff and the benefits of economies of scale, network schools will work together to achieve the collective goals of increasing student achievement gains, reducing opportunity gaps, and preparing students for college and career success. In some areas, such as special education and English Language Acquisition, Beacon Zone schools will maintain DPS structures and access DPS supports without opting out. For some other areas where the schools in the Zone may have similar needs, such as personalized learning & enrichments, the Beacon Zone will help provide responsive Zone-wide service while also ensuring that the differentiated needs of each school are met, and will solicit feedback regularly on the efficacy of these Zone-provided shared services.