Student Learning Model

All HSE students will have guaranteed, meaningful career coursework and experiences leading to employment, post-secondary enrollment in a two-year or four-year school, or enlistment in the armed services after graduation.

What is Ford Next Generation Learning?

Hamilton Southeastern Schools is embarking on a transformational process with the assistance of Ford Next Generation Learning (NGL). The Ford NGL model mobilizes educators, employers and community leaders to prepare the next generation for employment, post-secondary enrollment in a two-year or four-year school, or enlistment in the armed services after graduation.

Ford NGL blends the expertise of stakeholders within and across communities. Three distinct but interconnected strands comprise the Ford NGL framework, which enables whole communities to design and carry out a long-term plan for revitalizing education.

What is the Explore Report?

To examine what a community-connected transformation could look like in HSE Schools, the Ford NGL team explored the capacity and readiness of the district. This required assessing the systems, structures, and processes necessary for transformation within the community and HSE. Download the report by clicking the button below.

Explore Report

How Can You Help With This Important Work?

Envision Day II

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Delaware Township Community Center | 9094 E. 131st Street

Help us in creating a unified vision and strategic plan for continued academic excellence in Hamilton Southeastern Schools. In collaboration with Ford Next Generation Learning (NGL) and support of staff, students, parents and area stakeholders, we will envision what the future can be for our students. Together, we are #RaisingHSE.

During Envision Day, we will accomplish:  

Create a unified community vision for career-connected experiences for students.
Develop a master plan to remain student learning within the classroom and community.
Design a shared ‘Portrait of an HSE Graduate.’

If you’re interested in participating in this event, please complete this form.

F.A.Q.

Why is HSE Schools working with Ford NGL?

The Indiana Department of Education awarded its 3E grant to the Indiana Career Collaborative, a division of the Central Indiana Education Service Center. During the summer of 2022, the Indiana Career Collaborative contracted services with Ford Next Generation Learning (NGL) to work alongside seven school districts during the first two-years of the five-year Ford NGL Transformation Process.

How will this work impact student learning in HSE Schools?

HSE Schools strives to connect its classrooms and curriculum with the surrounding community through career exploration, engagement, experiences (3E.1) and entrepreneurship. The goal of doing this is so each and every graduate of HSE will become either employed, enlisted in the military, and/or enrolled in a higher education program (3E.2) when they graduate. Community members in Fishers and Noblesville will have the opportunity to voice the knowledge, skills, attributes and professional experiences all HSE students, preschool through grade 12, will develop.

With this vision, HSE Schools will transform the student learning experience inside the classroom and out in the community to provide learners with experiences to help them determine what they want to do or not do once they graduate.

How can I take part in this work and share my voice?

With the facilitation support of Ford NGL, HSE Schools will bring together stakeholders including students, parents, staff and community leaders to a series of all-day “envisioning” meetings throughout the 2023-24 school year.

Dates for these meeting have been scheduled for:

Oct. 24, 2023
Dec. 6, 2023
Feb. 7, 2024
March 13, 2024
May 15, 2024

If you are interested in attending on of the “envisioning” meetings, please complete this form. 

What if I can’t attend?

What does the entire transformational process look like? 

To ensure sustainability, the entire Ford NGL facilitated process takes a minimum of five- years. The phases and framework are shown here.

Please keep in mind, this is a process and not a product. Once the transformation is complete, collaboration between HSE Schools and the community is sustainably built into student learning experiences. Following completion of the process, many school districts join the Ford NGL International Community and receive ongoing coaching and support. 

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Meet the Team Behind the Work

Steven Loser

Director of PK-12 Initiatives

Mr. Loser oversees the implementation of the district’s Portrait of a Graduate, a community project that highlights the responsibilities and goals of public schools in a community as well as the traits and skills that students will need the most to be successful in adult life. The district submits the Portrait of a Graduate to its Board of Education, which is then incorporated into the district’s strategic plan for education in the schools. Loser has also been a longtime advocate for providing Career Technical Education, internships, work-based learning and industry certification opportunities.

Michelle Brittain-Watts

Executive Director of Secondary Education

Ms. Brittain-Watts is currently the Director of Secondary Education with HSE Schools. She has served many roles as an educator. Previously she worked as principal, curriculum and special education compliance coordinator, teacher, and even athletic director, just to name a few. Brittain-Watts earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She later received her teacher certification from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Brittain-Watts also earned master’s degrees in education administration at Butler University and in psychology at Martin University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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