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Monterey Peninsula: Getting Inspired by Relationships Between Students and Adults
Through their redesign work, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has explored deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. The design team knew that such personal relationships and feeling...
Activity: Brainstorm Solutions and Refine Ideas
When designing change, teams brainstorm a wide range of potential ways to address their problem related to equity and resiliency in teaching and learning.
Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Solution
When designing change, teams should regularly pause to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and whether their planned change will lead to more equitable outcomes.
Plan to Pilot Your Prototype
This template provides design teams with space to clearly define the parameters of a pilot plan (or small test) – including the format, who will interact with the pilot, what messaging and resources are required, and what measures will determine...
Activity: Plan and Run a Pilot
When designing change, teams pilot their prototypes to assess strengths and weaknesses of a solution before implementing the solution across the district.
Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot
When designing change, teams regularly step back to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and to validate whether the planned change leads to more equitable results, especially before scaling any planned change.
Student-Led Equity Task Force
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District created a student-led, district-wide equity task force to create programs and initiatives to advance equity across the district, especially as the community transitioned to distance learning.
Milford High School Return to School Plan
School leadership built in time for staff members to give feedback on and poke holes in the return to school plan in order to strengthen the plan and to invest staff members who were apprehensive about returning to the school building in the plan.
Activity: Assemble an EdTech Leadership Team
This activity supports school- and system-level edtech leaders in developing an edtech leadership team to help translate the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation into action.
Driving EdTech Systems: Assemble an EdTech Leadership Team
This strategy provides school- and system-level leaders a process for assembling a team to drive edtech systems and practices.
The Eliot Innovation School’s Staff Culture Foundational Reading: Good Seeds Grow in Strong Cultures
This foundational article by Jon Saphier and Matthew King outlines 12 key cultural norms that drive sustained instructional improvement. The Eliot team cites this research as a guiding force in their AI strategy, intentionally sequencing their...