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Problem of Practice: Share Best Practices vs. Share Process/Failures
One of the key challenges articulated by district and CMO leaders is deciding how to share information across their systems – should we stick to “best practices” or share our process and failures as well? This guide unpacks the relative benefit of...
The Personalized Learning Journey of Dallas ISD
This video, created by Dallas ISD, provides an overview of the district’s personalized learning journey. Explore a timeline of key events, including how the work got started, how their thinking about personalized learning evolved, how they expanded...
Document: Summit's Change Management Framework
This playlist, created by Summit Public Schools, outline's the organization's framework and practice strategies for managing your stakeholders in the midst of a change process.
“Co-Creating with Our Students” presentation
This “mini-PD” training was developed by Monterey Peninsula Unified School District leaders to help teachers understand design processes and the reasoning behind pursuing co-design with students.
Empathy Interviews and Co-Design Sessions
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
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.
Centralized vs. Decentralized Implementation: How do we decide what the district should hold tight vs. loose?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of centralized or decentralized implementation of new instructional models and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
“Fast and Furious” vs. “Slow and Steady”: How fast should we be moving from pilot to scale? What will help us best achieve sustainability?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country 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.
Build Internally vs. Buy Externally: How should we develop our talent and resource pipeline?
This guide unpacks the relative benefit of buying external resources and services versus building internal capacity and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Prioritize Need vs. Prioritize Readiness: How do we decide where to pilot and how to allocate resources to schools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of allocating resources based on the need versus the readiness of schools and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.