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ELI Convening Poster Presentations
Posters highlighting each ELI organization, including an organizational overview, description of their innovation, what they’ve learned so far, and questions they’re exploring.
Starting Smart with Learning Acceleration: A Quick Guide for State Education Agency (SEA) Leaders
This guide helps state education agency leaders take practical, early steps to embed learning acceleration within daily instruction across their state. Organized around five foundational questions, it provides Hop, Skip, and Leapfrog actions that...
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined?
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are...
Locust Grove Middle School’s Shift to Personalized Learning
Locust Grove collected information from a lot of sources to help inform the “why” and the “what” of their personalized learning efforts.
Creating a Culture of Revision
Using data, feedback, and milestones to build out specific revisions around skills students wants to gain proficiency in.
Know Your District Reflection Activity
When designing change, teams start with an in-depth analysis of what is currently working well in the district and where the district’s primary pain points are. This template is designed to help districts explore the community’s history – including...
District Self-Assessment Discussion Questions
These discussion questions accompany the Activity: District Self-Assessment strategy.
Empathy Interview Question Template
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning). This guide includes a starting set of questions you can ask...
Stanford d.School Empathy Interview Guide
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning). This guide from the Stanford d.school provides in-depth...
Cedar Rapids: Centering Student and Teacher Voice Through Empathy Interviews
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) knew the data: there were stark academic outcome gaps across demographic groups in the district. To explore the root causes of these gaps, CRCSD conducted interviews with affected students and teachers,...
Mastery Charter Schools: Empathy Interviews on Blended Learning and Culturally-Responsive Teaching
Mastery Charter Schools’ redesign sought to integrate blended learning and culturally-responsive teaching. Translating that model into specifics would require input from a variety of stakeholders: students, teachers, and families. The design team...