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Cedar Rapids: Defining a Commitment to Equity and Resiliency
Cedar Rapids Community School District used its existing district vision for teaching and learning as an important anchor for its process to design near-term change. This helped the district advance progress on its current plans toward a goal that...
Mastery Charter Schools: Vision for Personalized, Blended, and Culturally Responsive Teaching
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Mastery Charter Schools first described their ideal future for teaching and learning for students with a special focus on the most marginalized. They envisioned confident, independent...
Monterey Peninsula: Vision for Mastery Learning at Scale
As it started a design process to improve teaching and learning, Monterey Peninsula first envisioned their ideal future classroom. The design team surfaced a compelling vision of mastery learning across every classroom in the district – one where...
What We Learned from the Strategy Lab
In our work to support seven school systems from the Strategy Lab through the Real-Time Redesign process, we encountered three powerful takeaways about what it means to advance equity and resiliency in teaching and learning in a school system...
Financial Planning in the Time of COVID-19
Three concrete tools, contextualized in case studies that leaders can use as they finish the 2020-21 school year and begin financial planning for the 2021-22 school year for school systems and CMOs.
Reimagining High School Grading Slidedeck
In response to the high failure rate with students during the pandemic, Renton School District sought to make changes to grading policies and practices — not only to reduce the number of F’s but also to make the district’s grading system more...
Identifying Three Focus Priorities to Direct Improvement Efforts
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District identified three critical, high impact strategies for the entire central office to focus on.
Back to School Kick-Off
In this video, students from Monterey Peninsula Unified School District came together to share their work launching a district-wide equity task force during the district’s 2020-2021 school year.
Back to School Kick-Off
In this video, students from Monterey Peninsula Unified School District came together to share their work launching a district-wide equity task force during the district’s 2020-2021 school year.
Equity Task Force Slide deck
This example slide deck by Monterey Peninsula Unified School District showcases how they ran a student-led, district-wide equity task force to create programs and initiatives to advance equity across the district, especially as the community...
School-Based Budgeting with District Support at Hopkins Public Schools
Ann Ertl, Interim Director of Innovation, Design, and Learning at Hopkins Public Schools describes the district’s shift to providing school leaders with increased autonomy around school-based budgets.