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Teaching Practices

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.

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Teaching Practices

Build Internally vs. Buy Externally: How should we develop our talent and resource pipeline?

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 county have managed this tension.

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Prioritize Need vs. Prioritize Readiness: How do we decide where to pilot and how to allocate resources to schools?

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.

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“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.

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Strategies

Collecting Data in Pursuit of Equity

Using data to understand how the system is serving different groups of students

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Centralizing Design Capabilities to Drive Decentralized School Strategies

How to support school autonomy in a structured way

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Centralizing Procurement Information to Enable Decentralized Choices

Helping teachers and schools make effective technology procurement choices.

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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.

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Building Routines, Systems, and Habits of Mind Before Personalizing Learning

How to cultivate the underlying skills that will help both teachers and students engage productively in a personalized learning environment.

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Engaging the Community to Build Future Momentum

How to build momentum for change by opening dialogue and participation across the entire system.

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Engaging Leaders in Culture Change

How to engage the entire district in a conversation around equity and change the culture of the system.

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