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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of Creating Tech Tools
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the school has worked to create and develop custom applications to support integrations and student and teacher workflow. Transcript: Jill Tew: the first thing that we did this...
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses the "Why" and the "How" of Tech Tool Development
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the team's philosophy for understanding technology needs, doing diligence on existing products, and developing tools to fill gaps. Transcript: Jill Tew: Whole process, we were thinking...
![Screenshot of Rhode Island Design-Based Education Strategic Planning Process, which shows “2020 Vision for Education, Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for PK-12 & Adult Education, 2015-2020” on top of a wall of illustrations, alongside text that reads “Developing Rhode Island’s PK-12 education strategic planning process,” and a quote, “We came up with this crazy idea that instead of [RIDE] developing the plan, we’ll ask community members to do it. We knew it was right, but it was scary. This is going to be a plan that RI is going to take and use for the next 5 years to do amazing things for the children of the state.”](https://practices-assets.learningaccelerator.org/images/strategy_images/_square/3713/Policies3.3.4.webp)
Example: Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for Education
Rhode Island, a state committed to implementing blended and personalized learning, developed and implemented a design-based, community-based, crowd-sourced strategic plan for public education. Discover the narrative, process, and key materials they...
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.
Activity: Reflect on the Pilot
When designing change, teams use data from a pilot in order to determine whether the planned change should be scaled.
Activity: Pilot Next Steps - Ditch, Iterate, or Scale
When designing change, teams reflect on their pilots and choose appropriate next steps that reflect the needs and priorities of students, families, teachers, and classified staff.
Real-Time Redesign: Start Small
Key Objectives Turn your solution into a prototype that you can pilot on a small scale to test its effectiveness Reflect on data and observations from your pilot to learn more about your problem and determine if and how your solution should be...
Real-Time Redesign Case Study: Mastery Charter Schools
This case study provides an overview of Mastery Charter Schools' experience progressing through Real-Time Redesign.
Real-Time Redesign Case Study: Cedar Rapids Community School District
This case study provides an overview of Cedar Rapids Community School District's experience progressing through Real-Time Redesign.
Real-Time Redesign Case Study: Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
This case study provides an overview of Monterey Peninsula Unified School District's experience progressing through Real-Time Redesign.
Project Plan Template for Pilots
This project plan template can be used in planning to pilot a prototype by identifying key areas of work and organizing tasks aligned to priorities.