The Ford NGL Roadmap
Imagine for a moment that your school is filled with young people who are HIGHLY ENGAGED and ACTIVELY learning ideas and skills.
The Five-Phases
Every community is assigned a dedicated Ford NGL Coaching Team that guides you through the Ford NGL Roadmap experience. Our coaching model takes the community through a five-phase roadmap, resulting in a school AND community-developed Master Plan with action (tactical) plans informing the full transformation.
Phase 1: Explore
- Understand the benefits and features of transforming the school experience using the Ford NGL Community-Connected Approach.
- Consider readiness and commitment to embrace the Ford NGL Community-Connected Transformation
Phase 2: Envision
- Deepen the community-wide understanding of the benefits and features of transforming the school experience using the community-connected approach.
- Understand and develop the systems, structures, processes, and leadership needed to implement the plan and guide continuous improvement.
- Deepen community-wide commitment to embrace the Ford NGL Model for transformation.
Phase 3: Plan
- Achieve community-wide consensus on the ownership of a vision for transformation and detrmine what it will take to implement the vision.
- Create a community-wide three-year master plan for achieving a vision that is aligned with the school district's plans.
- Agree on a set of priorities for the first year of implementation.
- Strengthen the systems, structures, processes, and competencies needed to implement the master plan and guide continuous improvement.
Phase 4: Implement
- Strengthen community-wide capacity to implement and continuously improve the education system.
- Implement the systems, structures, processes, and competencies to support and sustain continuous improvement with all key individuals and groups engaged.
- Inspire, share, and contribute to the Ford NGL Network.
Phase 5: Go Further
- Deepen the implementation of the systems, structures, processes and competencies requried to support and sustain continuous improvement including an intentional focus on distributed leadership and succession planning.
- Create and share innovations that will support the entire Ford NGL Network.
Harness the Power of the Ford NGL Network
Our communities talk about “the POWER OF THE NETWORK” as one of the key drivers of their success in transforming their schools into wall-to-wall career academies.
Ford NGL fosters regular opportunities for our international network of communities to come together and learn from each other.
Transformation can be messy. That is why being able to learn from the “mistakes” of those who’ve gone before us is essential….and “paying it forward” happens constantly. In fact, learning from each other and sharing ideas, challenges, and solutions is what we do every day as members of the Ford Next Generation Network.
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