CARE Network School Team Application
The Center for Research on Equity and Innovation at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education and partners from CREATE at the University of California, San Diego and the California Math Project, are seeking middle schools to join the CARE Network. Our aim is to increase the number of students who are Black, Latinx, Indigenous or from low-income backgrounds who have a strong academic identity and are on-track in 8th grade to graduate high school and successfully enter college and career.

We welcome applications from middle schools in the Southern California region. It is our hope that this application should take no more than 15 min to fill out.  
If you have any trouble filling out this Google Form feel free to email written responses to: dsharrock@hightechhigh.org:

Funding for participation is provided by the Gates Foundation, and additional funds are available for substitute costs for participating teachers. We will continue to accept applications until all 6 remaining network slots are full. We will contact schools to schedule a virtual meeting after we receive the team application (this form).

One member from the team can submit the application on behalf of the school team, however, we have found that the most successful teams are those where all team members are aware of and committed to the activities and goals of the network. For this reason we are asking teams to also fill out and upload a team participation acknowledgement letter (http://bit.ly/TeamLetter) and a letter of support from their district office (http://bit.ly/DistrictLetter), in addition to filling out this application form.

All schools participating in CARE must provide initial student level data and a district signed MOU.

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Email *
First Name *
Last Name *
Role (select the choice that best describes your role): *
Middle School Name *
School District/CMO *
Application Narrative
We appreciate your honest assessment of where you are as a school. Each school in the network will be using continuous improvement and trying to improve. This implies that we are still learning and none of us is perfect.
Why does your school want to participate in this network? (250 words or less) *
Self Assessment & Existing School Structures
Please answer the following questions about your school to the best of your ability.
How would you describe your school's level of experience with continuous improvement? *
Please indicate where your school is with respect to the following: *
Not started
Just starting to plan
Have implemented structures, but are still pending evidence of impact
Have already implemented structures and seen results
How far along is your school in developing an early warning system to identify struggling students (regularly looking at student level data: GPA, attendance, and behavior) and provide successful interventions?
How far along is your school in supporting the development of strong student - teacher relationships?
How far along is your school in developing structures to improve implementation of culturally responsive math instruction?
How far along is your school in regularly collecting and looking at data on student perceptions of belonging and engagement?
Please tell us more about the structures and routines your school has in place to support struggling students (250 words or less): *
In what ways, if any, do educators at your school site collaborate to support struggling students? (250 words or less) *
As network participants, all school teams will engage in Student CARE Team huddles on a weekly or biweekly basis. When will your team do this work? (PLC time or grade level meeting time works well!) If you select "other" please provide additional details of where and when the work will occur. *
School Data
One of the activities we will engage in as a network is to regularly look at data of some key 8th grade success indicators. Your Team’s answers to these questions will not affect your application's success. Your responses will help us understand what data is regularly looked at and accessible to school personnel. Please indicate the following or note if you do not know:
We look at disaggregated student data (by race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc..) at the following frequency: *
Once a month or more
Quarterly
Once a semester
Once a year
We do not look at disaggregated data of this type
Student attendance
Student current GPA
Student standardized test scores
Student work completion
Number of students currently passing/failing a core math or English class
Retention rates for 8th grade students
Instruction
In addition to the work focused on identifying struggling students and providing interventions, some school teams in our 8th grade on track network will also be using lesson study to implement and improve culturally responsive math instruction. We recognize that not all teams will be in a place to focus on improving culturally responsive math instruction right away. Please answer the following questions about instruction at your school.

How would you describe your school's level of experience with lesson study? *
How would you describe your school's level of experience with culturally responsive pedagogy? *
What structures and routines do you have in place for teachers to collaboratively improve instruction at your school? (250 words or less) *
Please indicate whether your school site is interested in participating in lesson study focused on culturally responsive math instruction during the 2020-21 school year: *
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