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Teaching Practices
“Prix Fixe” vs. “A la Carte”: Should we scale a comprehensive model throughout our system or provide access to a series of independent, modular resources or tools?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating a central “prix fixe” implementation model vs offering more flexible “a la carte” options and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Artifacts
Problem of Practice: Centralized vs. Decentralized Implementation
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.
Strategies
Collecting Data in Pursuit of Equity
Using data to understand how the system is serving different groups of students
Artifacts
Problem of Practice: "Fast and Furious" vs. "Slow and Steady"
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of change implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
Artifacts
Problem of Practice: Prioritize Need vs. Prioritize Readiness
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.
Artifacts
Problem of Practice: Build Internally vs. Buy Externally
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 country have managed this tension.
Strategies
Communities of Practice
How to support innovative teachers to continue to stretch their practice over time.
Artifacts
Problem of Practice: Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience
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.
Artifacts
Problem of Practice: “Prix Fixe” vs. “A-la-Carte”
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating a central “prix fixe” implementation model vs offering more flexible “a la carte” options and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Artifacts
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...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Storytelling Built to Engage Community Stakeholders
Most schools and districts have a specific communications strategy built-in to their yearly calendar; however, many of these schools and districts need to work on the storytelling they use in order to leverage communication strategies more...
