Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools (WRCCS)

The Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools (WRCCS) is a statewide team housed within CESA 9 to strengthen the charter school system in the state and improve student learning. We support all schools through reflection and articulation of practices across the system, moving our work beyond just charter schools to include schools, programs, and districts.

 

WRCCS supports the start-up and sustainability of schools and initiatives across the state, aiming to improve access and outcomes for all students by providing high-quality just-in-time resources, facilitating school-to-school connections, and disseminating information across the state.

 

The WRCCS team collaborates with schools to identify specific assets and areas of need and then engage in professional development in those areas in order to create high-quality schools for students in Wisconsin who are at an educational disadvantage.
 

Services include:

The Center for High Quality Authorizing

Charter School Institutes for:

Live learning opportunities

Personalized support

Online tools

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• Humanistic Leadership Training and Coaching
• Contracting/Recontracting with the Governance Board
• Charter School Performance Framework
• Using Charter Schools to Meet Your Mission and Vision
• Charter School Monitoring
• Authorizer Annual Report
• Authorizer Policymaking
• Charter School Application Process and Review
• Charter Contracting and Renewal Decisions
• Charter School Design - Portfolio and Expectations Vision

• Contracting/Recontracting with the Authorizer
• Policymaking
• Annual Retreat planning and facilitation
• Financial planning and strategizing
• Developing a School Playbook
• Developing School Performance Measures
• Strategic Planning and Working the Plan to Guide Board Meetings
• Drafting Roles and Responsibilities of the Board, Leaders, Teachers, and Authorizer
• Routine Board Operations (ex. effective board meetings, reporting)
• School Leadership Evaluation
• Charter Governance Board Evaluation and Facilitated Self-assessment
• Building Committees: Governance, Finance, Academic Excellence, etc.
• Recruiting, Nominating, and Orienting New Board Members
• Charter School Design - Initial Board Foundation and Vision

• Humanistic Leadership Training and Coaching
• Developing a School Playbook
• School culture-building among shared leadership and whole staff involvement
• Setting up transparent and sustainable systems around budget, communications, equity, and mission alignment
• Aligning the mission and vision of the school with performance measures, goals, and practices that will lead to strong outcomes
• Analyzing charter school performance measurement data and making an action plan and report from the data
• Equity training and coaching for staff
• Professional job-embedded coaching and capacity building
• Business management
• Writing your standard operating procedures
• Charter school design - structures and vision
• Realignment of charter school mission to practices and measures

• Setting up structures for or implementing: Project-based learning, Competency-based learning, Personalized learning, Conferring assessment, Standards-based assessment
• Aligning the mission and vision of the school with performance measures, goals, and practices that will lead to strong outcomes
• Classroom culture-building
• Classroom technology strategies
• Ensuring equitable access to your curriculum and instruction
• Curriculum writing
• Professional job-embedded coaching
• Charter school design - academic model and vision