Resources
Explore artifacts and resources shared by Lead Innovation Teams across VaLIN cohorts, organized by school division. Each links out to the original document, slide deck, or resource created by that team.
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VaLIN Network-Wide Media 2
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Change It Up
from VaLIN's first two cohorts.
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VaLIN Cohort YouTube Channel
video library spanning VaLIN's first two cohorts.
Amherst County 3
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Balanced Assessment on the Road to Innovation
Building on the efforts that Amherst's VaLIN 2.0 team advanced within instructional models that support deeper learning, this year's efforts provided an opportunity to focus on infusing performance task administration.
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Project-Based Learning
Amherst County Superintendent Dr. Rob Arnold shares the story from moments of a year of innovation.
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Project-Based Learning
Amherst County shares the journey from moments of a year of innovation.
Bristol City 2
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Bearcat Bridge
Bristol City collaborated with the local Chamber to establish a program that prepares and recognizes high school students who demonstrate career and workforce readiness skills.
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Bearcat Bridge
Bristol City collaborated with the local Chamber to establish a program that prepares and recognizes high school students who demonstrate career and workforce readiness skills.
Campbell County 2
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CCPS Professional Learning Toolkit
Campbell's local innovation was to develop a professional learning toolkit with a purpose of providing ready-to-use professional resources for administrators, teachers, and coaches. Additionally, the toolkit provides transparency and clarity on our best professional and instructional practices.
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CCPS Professional Learning Toolkit
This presentation outlines the process of creating and using a professional learning toolkit designed with a purpose of providing ready-to-use professional resources for administrators, teachers, and coaches.
Chesapeake City 2
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CARES and Empower ColLabs
As a means of advancing outcomes associated with Chesapeake Compassionate and Responsive Educational Supports (CARES), the Chesapeake City Cohort 3.0 team helped to shepherd and support the launch of Empower ColLabs.
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Empowering Educators
During a review of their efforts from the 2020-21 school year, Chesapeake City's innovation team brought to light a theme of empowering educators to provide a greater level of real-life application to student learning experiences.
Chesterfield County 3
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CCPS PLC Playbook
Chesterfield's local innovation was to better understand what school leaders need to support stronger implementation of PLCs in their schools as well as the intentional action steps the division can take to support that effort.
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From Design to Impact
As part of their innovation journey, Chesterfield identified the need to set the stage for innovation to take place.
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From Design to Impact
As part of their innovation journey, Chesterfield identified the need to set the stage for innovation to take place, focusing on revamping their School Improvement and Innovation Process.
CodeRVA Regional High School 1
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Promoting Student Agency via 9GA
CodeRVA's design builds on next-generation high school models across the nation that rethink the use of time and space, leverage technology to personalize and accelerate learning, and redesign curriculum to align with competency-based progressions. CodeRVA's team identified the need to create a formal Ninth Grade Academy (9GA) to facilitate the transition not only to high school, but to CodeRVA's unique learning environment.
Cumberland County 2
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Building Capacity through Leadership Coaching
The Cumberland team's goal was to grow and develop more leaders at all levels through meaningful coaching. The division planned to build capacity by developing leaders at all levels to assist students to be equipped to thrive in life.
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Design and Use of PK-12 5Cs Rubrics
Cumberland County has been working on developing and aligning the 5C's rubrics PK-12.
Danville City 1
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Advancing PLCs
The Danville team's journey in Cohort 4.0 focused around implementation of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in all schools. In this presentation, they outline their initial steps in this endeavor as well as long term implications for growth.
Fairfax County 4
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Presentations of Learning
Fairfax County Public Schools has focused on assessment innovation through exploring how performance assessment and presentations of learning centered on growth within the competencies of our graduate profile — termed POG POL.
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Presentations of Learning (PoG PoL) – Presentation
Partnering in the VaLIN cohort 4.0 provided the Fairfax team with an opportunity to think strategically and learn from other school districts' experiences and challenges in scaling Portrait of a Graduate Presentations of Learning (PoG PoL).
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Presentations of Learning (PoG PoL) – Video
Partnering in the VaLIN cohort 4.0 provided the Fairfax team with an opportunity to think strategically and learn from other school districts' experiences and challenges in scaling Portrait of a Graduate Presentations of Learning (PoG PoL).
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Transforming Student-Led Assessment Video
How has Fairfax County Public Schools attempted to adapt instructional practices to shift with changing times? Experience the journey of trailblazing schools that are shifting instruction to provide experiences where students learn, develop, and showcase their growth in "Portrait of a Graduate" skills through student-led Presentations of Learning.
Fluvanna County 3
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VaLIN 5.0
produced by the VaLIN Youth Media team at Fluvanna County High School.
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VaLIN Cohort 4
produced by the VaLIN Youth Media team at Fluvanna County High School.
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VaLIN Cohort 4 Launch
produced by the VaLIN Youth Media team at Fluvanna County High School.
Franklin County 1
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Learner-Centered Environments at Franklin MS
Franklin County's Cohort 4.0 team united leaders at Franklin Middle School around a mission of building a community of invested agents of learning who are empowered to create learner-centered environments.
Fredericksburg City 1
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Engaging ELL Students and Families
In this team presentation, the Fredericksburg City Innovation Team describes their path to improving EL student graduation rates and increasing parental engagement with EL families.
Gloucester County 1
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Student Engagement to Impact Student Learning
The focus of this project was student engagement and how it can impact student learning. Principal Jodie Simpson outlines her approach to creating the conditions that lead to student learning at Gloucester High School.
Greene County 1
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Developing and Implementing Performance Assessments
Greene County Public Schools continued their efforts to support Innovation Teams within the division toward the development and implementation of performance assessments.
Greensville County 4
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Launching Performance Tasks
Greensville County is a Year 1 Innovation Team from Cohort II, with an initial innovation goal to increase project-based tasks and student-centered learning in the classroom.
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Launching Performance Tasks
Greensville County is a Year 1 Innovation Team from Cohort II, with an initial innovation goal to increase project-based tasks and student-centered learning in the classroom.
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Professional Learning, Development & Training
VaLIN 4.0 cohort member Yardley Farquharson developed and began to implement this professional learning system to support teachers in providing evidence-based and research-based instruction in Greensville County. This system ensures monitoring and oversight for the implementation of professional learning and development opportunities attended.
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Professional Learning, Development & Training
This presentation outlines the efforts of VaLIN 4.0 cohort member Yardley Farquharson in the development of the division's professional learning system to support teachers in providing evidence-based and research-based instruction.
Hanover County 1
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Electives Pathway Exploration
Despite the changes students were to experience in the fall of 2020, the Hanover team was able to fold the thinking of multiple elective choices within a new middle school schedule.
Henrico County 3
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Henrico 21: LifeReady Learning Exhibition
Seeing is Believing! Team Henrico planned and implemented a division-wide student exhibition of learning called Henrico 21: LifeReady Learning Exhibition. This powerful event served as a one-of-a-kind opportunity to demonstrate the power of Presentations of Learning (PoL) to the entire Henrico County Public Schools learning community.
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Journey Toward Life Ready Framework
Henrico's story centers on how the pandemic supercharged their advance towards a deeper learning focused Teaching and Learning Framework through rapid prototyping, testing, failure, and survival.
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Mobilizing Our Community to Accelerate LifeReady Learning
The HCPS team focused on mobilizing their community "from the inside out," leveraging available accelerators to advance efforts with instructional leaders, school leaders and staff, and the broader community.
Isle of Wight 1
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Making It Better for Students, One Relationship at a Time
The Isle of Wight Cohort 3.0 team's goal was to explore the relationship needs of students and staff and to develop and pilot strategies that build relationships for students and staff, simultaneously.
King and Queen, King William, and Mathews 1
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Operationalizing the 5Cs
The goal of this multi-district team's efforts: to guide division-level and school-level leaders to unpack and operationalize the 5 C's.
Loudoun County 1
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One LCPS: 2027 Strategic Plan for Excellence
Loudoun County adopted a new strategic plan, One LCPS: Strategic Plan for Excellence in June 2022. During Cohort 4.0, the team focused on bringing the strategic plan to life and implementing it with fidelity.
Louisa County 1
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Launch: Professional Learning For Teachers, By Teachers
This artifact outlines Louisa County's journey to develop a high impact professional learning day (teacher voice, teacher choice, led by teachers) to enhance the 5C's in classroom activities and lessons.
Manassas Park City 2
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Activating the Individual Excellence Framework
Building on the work of the MPCS VaLIN 3.0 team and its creation of an Individual Excellence Framework, the 4.0 team used this document as a springboard towards creating supporting documents for educators in meeting the requirements of the new teacher performance Standard 6: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Equitable Practices.
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Individual Excellence Framework
As a member of this year's cohort, the MPCS team elected to review the common language innovation framework from Cohort 1.0, centering on how this year's team could revise the initial Inclusive Excellence to reflect Individual Excellence.
Montgomery County 1
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MCPS Tech Internship Video
The MCPS Tech Internship program offers students a real-world learning experience that prepares them for future endeavors in the field of cyber security.
N/A 1
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5.0 Convening Info
Use this spreadsheet to stay apprised of when Cohort 5.0 meets during the 2023-24 session! Location, lodging and parking details are included in this resource.
Nelson County 2
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Nelson Portrait of a Graduate
Over their time in VaLIN 4.0, Nelson County's team worked to develop a localized Portrait of a Graduate for their school division based on community input. They gathered feedback through their initial survey and made strides in developing localized competencies for each of the 5C's.
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Pathways for Professional Learning
The Nelson team worked collaboratively to reimagine approaches to professional learning via empowering our educators in Lead Innovation Teams.
New Kent County 1
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Summer of MORE
New Kent County leveraged a 5Es approach to build commitment as they reinvent the summer learning experience to reactivate the joy for learning.
Newport News City 1
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Instructional Design Model
In response to the growing number of staff vacancies, the NNPS VALIN 4.0 team created a task force consisting of principals, assistant principals, teachers, and central office support staff to design instructional models that could help schools address staff shortages in creative ways. This "Instructional Design Model" document will be a resource for school admins when making instructional decisions that meet their unique staffing needs. The team's journey is documented in this slide presentation.
Norfolk City 2
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Community Schooling Overview
Norfolk City Principal Michael Lazarus focused his efforts on Community Schooling, bridging the gap between home, school, and the community in partnership with William & Mary and following the Project Empower model to provide mentorship to students to facilitate wrap-around services so that educators can provide services to the total student.
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Establishing a Community of Practice for Concurrent Instruction
Norfolk Public Schools, like so many, shifted their innovation during the year to meet both present and future learning.
Nottoway County 2
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E3: Expose, Explore, Experience
The Nottoway team's Innovation Focus is best summed up as E3 — Expose, Explore, Experience. Their goal is to expose, reveal, and introduce careers and opportunities to elementary students as they develop curiosity and interests.
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E3: Expose, Explore, Experience
The Nottoway team's Innovation Focus is best summed up as E3 — Expose, Explore, Experience. Their goal is to expose, reveal, and introduce careers and opportunities to elementary students as they develop curiosity and interests.
Orange County 2
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Enhancing Family Engagement
Orange County Principal Nick Sodano outlines his four-domain plan for increasing family engagement with Gordon-Barbour Elementary School.
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Performance-Based Assessment
Orange County Public Schools focused on Performance-Based Assessments as a VaLIN Cohort 3.0 Team, addressing Performance Assessment design, score calibration, and communication.
Petersburg City 1
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Developing Literacy Instruction
With coaching and support from the VaLIN 4.0 Network, a diverse group of 4th grade teachers and paraprofessionals received in-house training on how to deliver multisensory literacy instruction in the areas of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics.
Portsmouth City 1
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Profile of an Adult Learner
The original goal of this project was to develop a family literacy program with a non-profit organization based in an elementary school in Portsmouth Public Schools so as to provide workforce training and digital literacy to parents in the division. Through this experience, the focus pivoted to developing a Profile of an Adult Learner as a Virginia Graduate.
Powhatan County 2
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Aligning Vision and Values to Support The Portrait of a Graduate
Powhatan's DL421 initiative has driven division efforts toward deeper learning for the past several years, creating the Integrity Matrix by grade level.
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Instructional Playbook
The Powhatan County team's goal was to revisit, refine, and re-engage with division instructional structures. Their project is creating and implementing an instructional playbook with direct input and feedback from all teachers in the county to provide structures for instructional best practices in PCPS.
Radford City 1
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Reimagining School Scheduling
The driving question of Radford City's Innovation Team: Can we create a schedule that allows teachers to collaborate, plan, and prepare for the integration of problem/project based learning?
Richmond City 3
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Equity is Excellence
Robin Best represented Richmond City Public Schools in VaLIN for the 2022-2023 school year, inviting the Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School Exceptional Education Department to join her on the journey to build staff capacity around equitable learning outcomes. While her project finished in its infancy due to disruptive staff changes, her efforts laid a strong foundation on which to build.
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RPS DREAMS Innovation Framework
RPS's innovation journey began with their efforts to create STEM Academies within two of their middle schools.
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RPS DREAMS Sample Innovations
RPS's innovation journey began with their efforts to create STEM Academies within two of their middle schools.
Roanoke County 2
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Balanced Assessment System via ‘Opportunity Ready’ Certification
The Roanoke County team continued advancement of the division's C-Change Initiative by engaging in a process of developing and piloting the implementation of student-led conferences and portfolios.
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Leadership Academy
This video provides an overview of the Roanoke County Leadership Academy that was designed and held during the 2022-23 school year. In the video, participants shared about their experience as members of the Academy.
Rockingham County 2
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Implementing PLCs to Enhance Instruction
Administration and teacher leaders worked collaboratively to develop a PLC model building from the work done in LETRS Bridge to Practice collaborative learning sessions. Implementation of a PLC model takes time, and this work at the school level will continue to evolve as the division develops shared norms and goals for PLCs across its schools.
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Inquiry-Based Curriculum Design
Social Studies teachers in Rockingham County Public Schools spent the last year working with Dr. Kathy Swan of the University of Kentucky and Dr. Emma Thacker of James Madison University to develop inquiry-based curricula.
Salem City 2
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Integration of Performance Assessment into Curriculum
Salem City has made progress on teachers administering performance tasks but sought to scale it up division-wide.
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Profile of a Salem Graduate
Salem City has made progress on teachers administering performance tasks but sought to scale it up division-wide. To address this challenge, their team led review of existing tasks, revision of any that needed adjustment, engagement in a gap analysis to identify areas where tasks were missing, and development of a K-12 map identifying tasks and a curriculum map that shows growth in the 5Cs across K-12. The link above shares a video of students piloting a new performance task in 5th grade.
Shenandoah County 1
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Bringing SCALE to Life Video
The Shenandoah VaLIN team worked this year to continue to bring SCALE (Shenandoah County Advanced Learning Environments) to life.
Southampton County 1
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Local Partnerships to Realize the Profile
Southampton County Schools collaborated with local and regional partners such as Jobs For Virginia, to develop and implement programs that target SCPS Profile of a Graduate. In addition, each program implemented was intentional about creating a space for all families to feel welcomed and that their voices were being heard by division leaders.
Stafford County 5
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Building a Strategic Plan with Robust Stakeholder Involvement
Over the course of participation in VaLIN 2.0, the Stafford team focused on beginning to outline what the SCPS-specific profile of a graduate / learner / educator would look like.
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Cyber4+ Capstone Progression
Stafford Schools collaborated with stakeholders to develop a capstone project for cybersecurity students to serve as a model for other capstone experiences linked to our (still draft version) of its Profile of a Graduate. This document outlines the grade level course progression as well as the capstone project outline.
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Framework for Student Learning
Stafford's Cohort 4 team collaborated with stakeholders to develop a capstone project for cybersecurity students to serve as a model for other capstone experiences linked to our (still draft version) of its Profile of a Graduate. Along the way, the team realized the need for additional infrastructural documents to ground division-level instructional initiatives, and developed this Framework for Student Learning.
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Profile of a Stafford Graduate
Stafford's Cohort 4 team collaborated with stakeholders to develop a capstone project for cybersecurity students to serve as a model for other capstone experiences linked to our (still draft version) of its Profile of a Graduate. Along the way, the team realized the need for additional infrastructural documents to ground division-level instructional initiatives, and developed this draft for a Profile of a Stafford Graduate.
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SCPS Portrait of a Graduate
Over the course of participation in VaLIN 2.0, the Stafford team focused on beginning to outline what the SCPS-specific profile of a graduate / learner / educator would look like.
Staunton City 3
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SCS University
Continuous learning is an embedded process in any innovation. Staunton City Schools developed and upscaled SCS University, a collaborative peer-to-peer training that allows for personalized learning around an identified focus and need.
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SCS University
Continuous learning is an embedded process in any innovation. Staunton City Schools developed and upscaled SCS University.
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SCS University
Continuous learning is an embedded process in any innovation. Staunton City Schools developed and upscaled SCS University.
Suffolk City 1
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Systematic & Effective Implementation of Instructional Initiatives
The Suffolk team strove to promote coherence within their instructional initiatives, defining a systems approach rooted in continuous improvement models.
Surry County 1
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Data-Driven Professional Learning Supports to Advance Innovation
Participation in VaLIN's Cohort 3 has fostered the need for Surry County Public Schools (SCPS) to explore multiple long-range advantages of employing innovative strategic plans that employ Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs).
Virginia Beach City 2
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Division-Wide Approach to Balanced Assessment
To ensure Virginia Beach students are future-ready as outlined in the division's Graduate Profile, this VALIN team identified a core focus: balanced assessment.
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Systems for Student-Curated Works of Substance
In their Cohort 4 project, the VBCPS team developed vertical articulation of developmentally appropriate skills aligned to the VBCPS Graduate Profile to engage in authentic learning experiences designed to promote student agency and higher-order thinking skills while simultaneously ensuring growth and depth from Kindergarten to graduation.
Waynesboro City 1
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Students Solving Community Challenges
The Waynesboro City team focused its efforts on a pair of initiatives (Waynesboro High School's Students Solving Community Challenges program and Kate Collins Middle School's Waynesboro Educational Farm) that both incorporated opportunities for real world learning and community engagement within the context of the student experience.