Pilot Schools and Organizations

20010-2011 Pilot Schools

LAUSD / Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools

1. Ambassador School of Global Education
2. Ambassador School of Global Leadership
3. Los Angeles High School of the Arts
4. New Open World Academy
5. School for the Visual Arts and Humanities
6. UCLA Community School

NML's Early Adopter Network of Educators

• Maria Knee, Deerfield Community School, Kindergarten Teacher
• Kathy Mahanes, Pittsfield Elementary School, 2nd Grade Teaher / Tech Coordinator
• Robin Corbeil, Litchfield Middle School, Technology Teacher
• Jennifer Fritz, Somersworth Middle School, 6th Grade Teacher
• Deborah Brooks, Barrington Elementary School, Technology Teacher
• Maureen Meyer, Jonathan Daniels Elementary School, Library Media Specialist

2008-2009 Teachers' Strategy Guide Pilot Schools

• Aurora High School
  Bloomington, IN
• Global Learning Public Charter School
  New Bedford, MA
• New Bedford High School
  New Bedford, MA
• Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School
  New Bedford, MA
• Somerville High School
  Somerville, MA
• Wareham High School
  Wareham, MA
• Westbrook High School
  Westbrook, ME

2008-2009 Learning Library Pilot Organizations

Global Kids

Founded in 1989, Global Kids' mission is to transform urban youth into successful students and global and community leaders by engaging them in socially dynamic, content-rich learning experiences. Through its leadership development and academic enrichment programs, Global Kids educates youth about critical international and domestic issues and promotes their engagement in civic life and the democratic process. Through professional development initiatives, Global Kids provides educators with strategies for integrating experiential learning methods and international issues into urban classrooms. Over ninety percent of the high school seniors who participate in Global Kids' leadership program graduate from high school.

HOME, Inc.
Home, Inc. (Here-in Our Motives Evolve) is a non-profit that teaches educators and youth to create and analyze media . HOME has worked continuously with Boston inner city teens and media since 1976 and has created ground- breaking media projects such as "Get the Facts About AIDS!" and "It's On You" with the Boston Schools, Job Corps of New England, and others. HOME's work with schools includes creating and supporting new media lab spaces where students and teachers can collaborate and examine issues through media analysis, advocacy, and research, and foster student confidence, creativity and efficacy. Over the past four years HOME Inc. and MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program have jointly hosted a biennial media literacy conference for educators to highlight advances and convene practitioners to share the best practices in the field.

Zoey's Room

Zoey's Room is an award-winning online learning community maintained through peer-to-peer mentoring. Geared to girls, Zoey's Room encourages girls to complete STEM challenges, which expand their knowledge on a range of 21st century skills, including Internet research, databases, word processing, science, business math, digital and video proficiency, robotics, engineering and GPS technology. This one-on-one connection, along with the collaborative community of the website, encourages girls to become more interested in STEM careers, which could critically affect their success in today's economy and job markets.

2007-2008 Focus Groups:

Youth Voice Collaborative
Young Woman's Christian Association (YWCA), Boston, MA
An innovative after-school program of media literacy and leadership training, YVC provides young people from 13-18 with the information they need to become critical consumers of media and the skills to create and distribute messages that reflect their realities. YVC continues to expand and students have benefited from partnerships with the Boston Public Schools, WGBH, MIT, and 21st Century Learning Centers.

MIT@Lawrence
MIT@Lawrence is a long-term commitment to support dynamic and mutually beneficial relationships between faculty, students, and staff at MIT, together with civic leaders, residents, and community-based organizations in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The MIT@Lawrence commitment includes service learning, technical assistance, and community-based service projects in three program areas: affordable housing, community asset-building, and youth pathways to career and education. These areas promise opportunities for action-oriented scholarship through university-community engagement for the purpose of contributing to an equitable and sustainable future in the City of Lawrence.