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All education system leaders face choices about how to lead change in a way that maximizes benefits to students. These choices include how to set a clear and coherent vision to guide change, as well as how to implement and scale those changes effectively. Leaders can work to tailor their approach to change to their own system and bring together stakeholders to develop and integrate a shared vision for the future.

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Driving EdTech Systems: Engaging Stakeholders

Powerful edtech systems consistently engage stakeholders
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Activity: Get Inspired! Explore Innovative Schools

Explore districts and schools that are on the “leading edge” of equitable, resilient teaching and learning
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Activity: Match the Right Solution to Your Problem

How to narrow your set of potential solutions to one aligned idea
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Making AI Guidance Actionable for Teachers, Students, and Families

Translating Policy and Vision into Practice with Responsive Supports
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Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews

Tell stories and find themes from empathy interviews
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Locust Grove Middle School

Scaling Personalized Learning through Cohorts in Henry County School District

Henry County Schools created a cohort model to roll out blended learning across the entire district
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Driving EdTech Systems: Digital Accessibility

Equitable edtech systems ensure digital accessibility
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Driving EdTech Systems: Build Research and Measurement Capacity

Effective and powerful edtech systems root decisions in data.
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Advice: Pick a framework for change management

Explore key frameworks for blended learning change management
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System-Level Driving Questions: Setting an Innovation Focal Point

Leveraging a driving question to spark innovative teaching and learning practices
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Locust Grove Middle School

Developing Academic Competencies

Creating equitable expectations for all students by providing clear and consistent academic competencies
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Desert Edge High School

Building Teacher Leadership Through an AI Ambassador Program

Empowering Educators to Drive Context-Specific AI Integration
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Cisco Junior High School

Cisco ISD’s Redesign Process

Leveraging the Raising Blended Learners grant to accelerate the implementation of high-quality blended learning
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Dallas Independent School District

District Distance Learning Progression

A progression that outlines key elements of an instructional model for distance learning
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Activity: District Self-Assessment

Use current data and historical narratives to better understand inequities
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Cisco Junior High School

Designing Cisco ISD's Student Experience Pillars

Creating four core elements that must be included in blended learning while providing teachers autonomy
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Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders

Seek to understand the experiences of people in your district through personal interviews
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Solution

Take time to step back and ensure that your proposed solution is an equitable one
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot

Take time to step back and ensure that your solution has the desired impact
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Activity: Brainstorm Solutions and Refine Ideas

Ideate a range of potential solutions to your problem
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Collecting School-Level Data to Create Feedback Loops

“Not only can schools track their development, but they are also honing their understanding of personalized learning.” (Kimberly Richards)
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Activity: Define a Problem of Practice

Translate feedback into a clear problem statement that your design team will address
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System-Wide Definition of Blended or Personalized Learning

“The vision has to be your North Star.” (Rebecca Midles)
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Activity: Build a Shared Commitment to Change

Clarify your purpose for embarking on design work
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Gulfport Virtual Academy

Gulfport Virtual Academy's Approach to Teacher and Student Capacity

How a virtual school supported students learning asynchronously through new technologies and teaching practices
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Process

Take time to step back and reflect on how equitable your design process has been
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Locust Grove Middle School

Henry County’s School Redesign Process

Creating consistent structures to help schools implement personalized learning
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Locust Grove Middle School

Designing Henry County’s Five Pillars for Personalized Learning

Creating five core tenets to help support schools’ efforts to personalize learning
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Letting Schools Define Their Own Pathways in Blended Learning

“Our job is to empower the innovators, empower the schools, and our communities.” (Kevin Connors)
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Lindsay High School

Lifelong Learning Standards

Integrating non-cognitive standards into instruction to help Learners thrive as people
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Activity: Identity Reflection Through Noticing

Notice the experiences, identities, and values that each person brings to a team
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Advice: Targeted Messaging

How to develop key messages for stakeholders around blended and personalized learning
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Cedar Rapids Community School District

Identifying Three Focus Priorities to Direct Improvement Efforts

Concentrating central office efforts on highest impact levers
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Locust Grove Middle School

Locust Grove Middle School’s Shift to Personalized Learning

Using data to determine how to improve teaching and learning
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Hopkins Public Schools

Vision 2031: Adoption of District-Wide, 10-Year Vision for Innovation

District vision of an innovative education and portrait of a graduate in 2031
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Chicopee Public Schools

Driving EdTech Systems: Chicopee Public Schools

What does edtech systems improvement look like in practice?
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Declaring a District Mandate

“When change on the inside is slower than change on the outside, the end is near.” (Dr. Lisa Williams)
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Uxbridge Public Schools

Driving EdTech Systems: Uxbridge Public Schools

What does edtech systems improvement look like in practice?
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Hopkins Public Schools

Districtwide Learning Framework To Create Coherence With Greater School Autonomy

Leveraging a learning framework to support school-based decision making
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Locust Grove Middle School

Henry County Schools’ Shift To Personalized Learning

Moving from ideas to implementation at the district level