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In order to realize the promise of innovative teaching models at the student level, school and district leaders must establish system-level conditions such as Essential Supports that allow educators to implement the design for students, Enabling Systems and Structures that lower barriers for implementation and accelerate uptake, and Ongoing Processes to align and improve. Learn more about our Innovative Learning Implementation Framework and explore strategies, advice, and tools below.

Framework graphic showing Conditions for Success and Scale; a three-part diagram with a student at the center, labeled "Teaching & Learning Model," surrounded by a large green circle split into 4 parts: Learning Materials & Tools, Community & Culture, Student Support Programming, and Professional Development & Learning. This is further surrounded by a thinner turquoise circle, split into several parts: Policies, Talent Systems, Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, Physical Environment, Time, Finance and Resourcing, Technology and Data Infrastructure, and Communications. The outermost circle is split into the following parts: Systems Visioning, Planning and Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Designing for Equity, and Change Management. The Conditions are as follows: innermost circle- Essential Supports, middle circle- Enabling Systems & Structures, outermost circle-Ongoing Processes.
Learning Materials & Tools
  • Core Curriculum
  • Supplemental Curriculum
  • Digital Curriculum
  • Assessments
  • Software Selection
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Digital Citizenship
Professional Development & Learning
  • Onboarding
  • Professional Development
  • Technology Training
  • Content Area Training
  • Pedagogy
Student Support Programming
  • Comprehensive Student Development
  • Social-Emotional Learning
  • Physical Health
  • Mental Health
  • Identity Development
Community & Culture
  • Student Culture
  • Staff Culture
  • Systems Building
  • Parent Engagement
  • Community Engagement

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Continuous Improvement

Shifting to an innovative learning model is not work that happens at one single point in time. Leaders should instill methods and practices in their schools that allow the system to make incremental changes over time, with a focus on iteration and improvement to enhance outcomes for students.

Below, find strategies and resources for:

  • Program Capture
  • Program Codification
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Technology & Data Infrastructure
  • Technology Infrastructure
  • Connectivity
  • Hardware
  • Procurement
  • Network Systems
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Data Interoperability
  • Data Privacy & Security
Finance & Resourcing
  • Budgets
  • Finance Modeling
Physical Environment
  • Flexible Classroom
  • Physical Layout
  • Safety
Talent Systems
  • Leadership Pipeline
  • Teacher Pipeline
  • Staffing Model
  • Human Resource Systems
Communications
  • Communications Planning
  • Public Relations
 Time
  • School Schedule
  • Structure of the Day
 Research, Measurement, & Evaluation
  • Pilot Structure
  • Program Evaluation
  • Research
  • Learning
  • Measurement
  • Dissemination
 Policies
  • State Policy
  • District Policy
  • School Policy
  • Data Privacy Policy

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Continuous Improvement

Shifting to an innovative learning model is not work that happens at one single point in time. Leaders should instill methods and practices in their schools that allow the system to make incremental changes over time, with a focus on iteration and improvement to enhance outcomes for students.

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Visioning
  • Strategy Development
  • Vision Development
  • Leadership Decisions
Planning & Project Management
  • Planning
  • Project Management
  • Implementation
Change Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Leadership Choices
 Continuous Improvement
  • Program Capture
  • Program Codification
Designing for Equity
  • Equity Framing & Focus
  • Co-Design with Stakeholders
  • Analysis & Reflection

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Continuous Improvement

Shifting to an innovative learning model is not work that happens at one single point in time. Leaders should instill methods and practices in their schools that allow the system to make incremental changes over time, with a focus on iteration and improvement to enhance outcomes for students.

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  • Program Codification
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