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Teacher Professional Partnerships

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Contract between chartered school board and teacher professional partnership

EdVisions Cooperative, established in 1994, is a teacher professional partnership that enters into contracts with chartered school boards. It does so across the state of Minnesota, accepting accountability for school success in exchange for its teacher-members’ authority to make decisions about the school.

With their authority the teachers determine curriculum, set the budget, choose the level of technology available to students, determine their own salaries, select their colleagues, monitor performance, and sometimes hire administrators to work for them. Each school board transfers a lump-sum to EdVisions Cooperative to carry out the contract, and expects that EdVisions will provide and oversee a site team of teachers that will carry out the EdVisions model, including project-based learning, there.

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School Sites

EdVisions Off Campus

Project-based. Students begin their day in an online advisory group, where students share their plan for the day, find encouragement, and share with adults and kids. Another "live" meeting time during the day is the one-on-one meeting with the student’s advisor, which students usually have from 3-...

Green Isle Community School

Located in a rural community where the community school closed due to district consolidation, Green Isle offers a local public school option for families. The school provides a multi-age instructional model with programming that fosters intentional school-community connections, encourages responsibl...

Minnesota New Country School

A project-based learning model based upon the idea that students will be most engaged in the learning process when they have a personal interest in what they are learning. Instead of sitting in a teacher-driven classroom all day long, students learn through the exploration of topics that interest th...

Northern Lights Community School

NLCS emphasizes project-based learning and strong connections to the community, using community members and organizations as teaching resources for students. The goal of the school is to provide an opportunity for students working at all levels of academic achievement, who are looking for a smaller,...

RiverBend Academy

RiverBend provides performance-based education that is closely related to real-life experiences, technology integration (one computer per every two students), and focus on visual and performing arts.

Closed and Formerly Teacher-autonomous Sites

El Colegio Charter School

El Colegio Charter School is a small public high school in Minneapolis that has been serving students in English and Spanish since 2000. El Colegio engages students in challenging, profound learning experiences that integrate research-based teaching strategies with Latino culture and traditions. Th...