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Cedar Rapids: Getting Inspired by Standards-Based Grading
Cedar Rapids Community School District has a well-defined strategy for implementing competency-based learning. Amid implementation, however, they ran into challenges getting standards-based grading (a key part of their model) to really “stick” in...
Artifacts
Cedar Rapids: Getting Inspired by Real-World Relevance in Learning
Cedar Rapids Community School District has a well-defined Profile of a Graduate, or clear depiction of what a graduate of the district should know, feel, think, or believe; the profile focuses on ensuring that all Cedar Rapids graduates are ready...
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Mastery Charter Schools: Getting Inspired by Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogy
Mastery Charter Schools has a clear commitment to equity – its vision is to be a model anti-racist school district. To live out this commitment, Mastery seeks to provide affirming, engaging, and culturally relevant learning experiences for all...
Guides
Guides For Teams: Real-Time Redesign
A practical toolkit for improving equity and resiliency in schools
Artifacts
Key Terms & Definitions for Redesign
The following terms are used in the Real-Time Redesign toolkit developed through the Strategy Lab.
Artifacts
Real-Time Redesign - Section 1: Come Together
PDF version of Section 1: Come Together of the Real-Time Redesign toolkit.
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Real-Time Redesign - Section 2: Dream Big
PDF version of Section 2: Dream Big of the Real-Time Redesign toolkit.
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Real-Time Redesign - Section 3: Start Small
PDF version of Section 3: Start Small of the Real-Time Redesign toolkit.
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Real-Time Redesign: Mastery Charter Case Study
PDF Version of Mastery Charter's case study from the Real-TIme Redesign toolkit.
Artifacts
Cash Management and Planning for Reducing Organizational Risk
This simple 12-month cashflow projection tool allows charter management organizations to project cash on a monthly basis by leveraging the organization-total annual budget and input assumptions on the timing of cashflows.
Strategies
Financial Planning in the Time of COVID-19
Three concrete tools, contextualized in case studies that leaders can use as they finish the 2020-21 school year and begin financial planning for the 2021-22 school year for school systems and CMOs.
