New Mexico Innovation in Education 2024-25 Nomination Form

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.
Innovations 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 January 17, 2025.

Nominate a school as a Teach Plus Innovative School in Education by completing the form below:

1. Name and level of school you are nominating: *This question is required.

2. What is the name of your school district or charter school: (School districts are listed first, followed by charter schools.) *This question is required.

If you selected "Other" above, please provide the name of your school district or charter school here.

3. Location of school

4. Please select the school's category of innovation. *This question is required.

5. What is the title of the innovation at the school? (Only one innovation per nomination)

6. Please provide a brief description of the innovative model or practice. Explain who is involved in implementing the system, any updates/changes from traditional methods, and how the school’s innovation is driving academic growth as well as narrowing the gaps in student achievement and/or expanding access to opportunities to all students. This should be focused on one innovative model, a separate nomination should be completed for multiple models. *This question is required.

7. How long has the school been implementing this innovation?

8. Does the school have at least one year’s worth of student-outcome data to support the effectiveness of their innovation? (Data examples: iStation data, district assessment data, graduation rates over time, student attendance data by grade/subgroup, CTE program completion rates by subgroup, improvements in classes passed by subgroups).

9. Please share evidence of the impact of this innovation on student growth and outcomes.

10. How might this innovative system support the skill development and learning outcomes that will support economic mobility for students later?

11. List any awards or recognitions received by the teachers, principal, or as a school.

12. Please share anything else you would like us to know about this innovation.

13. Please provide the name and contact information of the point person we can reach out to with additional questions about the nomination and the innovation. *This question is required.

14. First Name *This question is required.

15. Last Name *This question is required.

16. Email Address *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

If you have any questions, please contact Hope Morales, hmorales@teachplus.org.