Total Number of Students: 24,316
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With the engage2learn Learning Framework, McKinney ISD (MISD) wanted to create a dynamic learning environment grounded in mastery learning and Future Ready Skills. They also wanted to build internal capacity and sustainability to embed Future Ready Skills into the learning environment.
Based on MISD’s long-term goals, engage2learn designed a customized engage2learn Learning Framework where school leaders and teachers were trained, coached and equipped with the knowledge to design, facilitate, and lead students to be Future Ready. This partnership consisted of building customized curriculum components for school leader training, teacher training, Coaches Academy, and for the Future Ready Skills important to the McKinney ISD community.
As part of engage2learn’s work, MISD incorporated engage2learn Studio, an online platform for teachers and students.
Through this platform, teachers are able to chunk standards throughout the school year while students learn to research, analyze, collaborate, and create with their peers on a secure online platform.
This customized platform also allows parents to see first-hand the standards and Future Ready Skills students learn in the classroom. Parents have also been provided these same resources to build a partnership between the home and classroom to reinforce these MISD identified Future Ready Skills.
The implementation of the engage2learn Framework started with one pilot school, Glen Oaks Elementary, and now has grown to seven schools across elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools.
Executive Leadership Coaching for school and district leaders has been a focus of the partnership with engage2learn. With this school-based rollout model, MISD realizes the need to build capacity ahead of implementation with leadership to prepare for the next phase of the rollout.
The schools in McKinney ISD implementing the engage2learn Framework have become lighthouse schools for the nation, hosting hundreds of visitors each year, including educators and business leaders who want to see the dynamic, technology-enabled culture in action.
MISD also ensures readiness for implementation expansion by conducting internal tours. The district rotates each leader and teacher through schools that are an existing implementation prior to implementing at their own school.
MISD has schools that were already high-performing schools before partnering with engage2learn. The partnership focused on cultural outcomes for engagement and collaboration.
However, the district has also seen unexpected increases in student achievement on these schools, along with the cultural shift, as a result of the implementation.
| Demographic Profile: | |
| African American | 12.6% |
| Hispanic | 26.6% |
| White | 53.9% |
| American Indian | 0.6% |
| Asian | 3.3% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| Two or More Races | 2.8% |
| Economically Disadvantaged | 29.6% |
| Non-Educationally Disadvantaged | 70.4% |
| English Language Learners (ELL) | 10.2% |
| Students w/Disciplinary Placements | 0.7% |
| At-Risk | 27.1% |
First published September 21, 2015.