WRCCS is thrilled to launch their new Center for High Quality Authorizing and Center for High QualityCharter Schools!
The WRCCS team continues to partner with experts and grow to expand our services and support for you! Our growth is supported by our contract with the DPI charter schools program grant, and through our relationships with everyone receiving this notice.
The new Center for High Quality Authorizing includes the WRCCS monthly network meetings, involvement in the National Network for District Authorizing, engaging school district board members, featuring authorizing experts on our new podcast and at conferences nationwide, and working with experts to continuously improve and expand our library of resources.
The Center for High Quality Charter Schools includes all of the WRCCS initiatives in supporting charter schools’ governance boards, leaders, and staff, along with new charter design teams. The work of this center encompasses our networks, increased document support, 1:1 support, and partnering with experts from across the state and country to bring high quality resources to your schools.
Check out our updated WRCCS Charter School Competencies along with our new badging system for professional development, CharterPD! Coming soon: our new website, e-courses, mentor schools, and more!
We invite you to complete our surveys below and share your thoughts on the new WRCCS Centers.
This document is intended to serve as a guide for authorizers to assist them in developing and implementing a process of soliciting and evaluating charter school applications.
WRCCS developed a quickstart guide to help you as an authorizer develop a practice of charter school monitoring. This will help you assess the charter school’s annual performance in addition to giving you the information you need to renew their charter contract.
The role of the charter school authorizer is critical to ensuring success and accountability for charter schools. Your entity allows the governance board to operate the school according to your performance expectations. Your entity can also focus work around a mission and create solutions for the community you serve.
Within this document you will find the 12 Essential Practices for Charter Authorizers from the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers (NACSA) (in grey) integrated with the Wisconsin statute requirements (in yellow).
Additional Resources
Each of these webpages are filled with resources regarding authorizing best practices, the basics of authorizing, legal responsibilities, and so much more.
The WRCCS Charter School Competencies are designed to help schools personalize their professional development and continued improvement. These competencies can help schools recognize learning that has not been considered, learning that is in process, as well as prior learning.
The following competencies have an Authorizer focus. For a more complete list of WRCCS competencies, please visit this webpage.
Intentionally works to understand the contract between authorizer and governance board through regular review of the contract.
Intentionally builds upon the relationship between authorizer and governance board through clear and regular communication.
Designs and communicates a plan with governance board to ensure the school's district/community are informed regarding the progress toward the charter's performance measures.
Creates and ensures an understanding of a set of performance measures (academic, behavior, and culture) that will hold schools accountable while celebrating innovation, diversity, and cultural differences.
Provides community information about, and access to, the open application process and removes barriers and bias from the process
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