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Share Best Practices vs. Share Process/Failures: How might practitioners best learn from one another? What should we be cataloguing and sharing throughout the district?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of sharing “best practices” versus sharing our processes and failures, and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Centralizing Design Capabilities to Drive Decentralized School Strategies
How to support school autonomy in a structured way
Building Routines, Systems, and Habits of Mind Before Personalizing Learning
How to cultivate the underlying skills that will help both teachers and students engage productively in a personalized learning environment.
Engaging the Community to Build Future Momentum
How to build momentum for change by opening dialogue and participation across the entire system.
Deliberately Creating a Culture of Change
How to address mindset shift productively when making a district-wide instructional shift.
Scaling Small Practices Organically
How to provide the right kind of central support to enable each teacher to take the lead in driving instructional change in their classroom.
Developing a Culture of Experimentation
How to provide individual or groups of teachers opportunities to drive their own investigation and acquisition of new digital tools or digital content.
Inspiring Teacher Engagement by Actively Sharing Their Work
How to inspire pioneering teachers to share their practices both within the network and also to others around the country.
Measurement Agenda Acknowledgements
Open School Development and Operations Resources
Washington Leadership Academy focuses on the importance of always growing, staying open to feedback, and trying to improve the world. It has committed to sharing its operation resources openly. In this guide, you will find resources around: School...