Technical Assistance

The Northwest Center for Educational Options provides a wide range of technical assistance—tools, resources and professional development trainings—forschool developers, charter and other small non-traditional public schools, school districts, and key education reform organizations. These services are differentiated to fit the individual needs of each client. Services that NWCEO staff have provided and can provide include, but are not limited to:

Charter School Developers and Board Members

• New School Design and Development
• Incentive Grant
• Working With Your Local School District
• Writing the Charter Proposal
• Negotiating the Charter
• Building the Infrastructure
• Charter Governance 101
• Sustaining the Momentum (Sound Financial Management)

Charter School Operators

• Vision to Reality
• Board and School Policies
• Instructional Leadership
• Staffing (Hiring, Firing, Staff Evaluations)
• Assessment and Accountability
• Dissemination Grant
• Student Management (building student, class and school positive behavior systems)
• Student Achievement (mapping instruction and curriculum to content standards, meaningful measurement of student progress over time, etc.)

School Districts

• Menu of District Services
• Charter Proposal Review and Analysis
• Charter School Quality Reviews (Basic and Comprehensive)
• Alternative Education Policy Review and Program Evaluation
• Customized Technical Assistance - can be arranged to meet the specific needs of your district.

Other

• Workshops (school-based and state-wide)
• Annual Conference
• Media Toolkit