School Type: Public	School Setting: Urban
Level: Elementary	School Design: Title 1
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Replication Details

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Alton adopted Co-nect, a model for whole-school change developed with the support from New American Schools Corporation.

The original intent of New American Schools was to create models that could be replicated in many schools under a range of conditions. In keeping with this intention, an integral aspect of the Co-nect model is the degree to which the model itself, with a focus on teamwork, full-faculty involvement and distributed expertise, is designed to increase the capacity of a school to sustain the reform process beyond the initial three-year period of intensive external support. Alton Elementary is an example of a school that has been successful in maintaining a strong degree commitment to the design in spite of relatively high staff turnover. Some of the key factors that may help to explain Alton's success follow:

1. A committed staff that believes that all students can succeed at much higher levels of academic achievement.
2. A building principal who serves as a visionary instructional leader in the school as well as a powerful advocate within the district.
3. Adequate technology infrastructure throughout the school.
4. A supportive district, willing to support policy changes and furnish resources that remove impediments to successful school reform.
5. Strong parental support.
   
   

Costs and Funding

Costs of implementing Co-nect in an average school (faculty in 25 - 50 range) follow:

• $65,000 per year for three years
• Travel and substitute allowance to support principal's training, facilitator's training, participation in the Critical Friends program and the national technology conference
• Supplemental travel for fly-in site director model (isolated schools)

Staff from Co-nect are available to meet with schools researching this model.

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