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Monterey Peninsula: Co-Designing Change with Teachers and Students
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) began a design process to improve teaching and learning with a team consisting of the superintendent and a diverse group of cabinet members, all strongly committed to the district’s goal to “listen...
School-Based Budgeting with District Support at Hopkins Public Schools
Ann Ertl, Interim Director of Innovation, Design, and Learning at Hopkins Public Schools describes the district’s shift to providing school leaders with increased autonomy around school-based budgets.
School-Based Budget Decision Making with District-Facilitated Support
To support school leaders in building decision-making skills and autonomy around school-based budgeting, Hopkins Public Schools provided district-facilitated support to school leaders.
Change Management at Trailblazer
The district supports strategic vision setting and action planning through change management structures.
Change Management at Summit Public Schools
Summit Public Schools uses an eight-step framework created by researcher John Kotter to lead and manage change.
Guide: Blended Learning Implementation Guide 3.0
The Learning Accelerator and Getting Smart joined with DLN to update this popular guide. Version 3.0 reflects feedback from schools and districts, developments in the field, and new educational technology trends.
Centralizing Procurement Information to Enable Decentralized Choices
Helping teachers and schools make effective technology procurement choices.
Using a “Soft Launch” to Show Evidence of Success
Example of how moving slowly at first can help cultivate evidence of success in the district.
Partnering Externally to Cultivate Capacity Internally
How to leverage external partnerships to help districts extend or accelerate their scaling process.
Cedar Rapids: Engaging Students and Teachers in Design
When Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) began a design process to improve teaching and learning, they started with a set of leaders from their Teaching and Learning team; all were strongly committed to the district’s vision for equity –...
equityXdesign Spectrum of Design Power Dynamics
The equityXdesign Collaborative has defined a spectrum of design power dynamics to help people starting on a design process to determine how they can best make their process inclusive and equitable. The spectrum shows three different approaches to...