We invite you to help recognize and celebrate great schools across New Mexico. Launched in 2022, Teach Plus New Mexico’s innovation work has focused on holistically understanding students’ and communities’ needs, listening to the teachers who serve them on a daily basis, and highlighting innovative and effective approaches that are generating results for students. Our goal is to amplify these practices, giving more students the opportunity to access innovative models of teaching and learning. In our
2023 report we highlighted innovative approaches to instructional practices, support systems, and family or community engagement, and in our
2024 report we featured innovations on early literacy and math, support for underserved student groups, and increased graduation rates. This year we are focused on identifying schools that are revamping systems to ensure that K-12 education is a pathway to post-secondary success, ultimately improving economic mobility through quality careers for more New Mexico students after graduation.
This year’s nomination process seeks to identify systems-level interventions aimed at improving skill development and long-term educational outcomes that will increase students’ access to higher education, quality careers, and economic mobility. We are looking to highlight schools with proven innovative practices and systems in the following areas:
- Innovations aimed at increasing student engagement and attendance: Student-centered systems designed to increase student engagement and attendance in order to improve learning and outcomes throughout their educational journey.
- Innovative aimed at boosting college preparedness: Differentiated pathways and systems of support for first-generation college students and low-income students designed to increase access to and success in college. This can include, but not be limited to, dual-credit courses, early-college programs, and expanded access to advanced coursework.
- Innovations aimed at developing skills for higher paying careers and careers of the future: Student-centered systems designed to increase access to and success in high quality careers and careers of the future that improve economic mobility. This includes but is not limited to work-based learning experiences, apprenticeships, and opportunities to attain credentials in high-wage, high-demand careers such as AI, engineering, cybersecurity, and more.
Specifically, we are looking for innovative practices and systems that:
- Have produced measurable increase in student learning/performance, skill development, and real world readiness indicators
- Can be replicated with fidelity in a variety of districts and regions
Please submit only one school and category per nomination. A school may be nominated multiple times, but each nomination should focus on the school’s work in one particular category. Selected schools will be featured in a statewide report and will host a learning session for educational stakeholders from across the state at our Innovation in Education event, to be held in the summer 2025 in Albuquerque.
Nominations are due by December 2, 2024.
Nominate a school as a Teach Plus Innovative School in Education by completing the form below: