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Teaching Practices
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.
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
White Paper: Look Both Ways
This downloadable white paper provides a framework to help education leaders navigate through competing approaches to system-wide change.
Strategies
White Paper: Look Both Ways
The Learning Accelerator has developed a new framework to help leaders understand and navigate through competing approaches about how to lead system change in a way that maximizes benefits to teachers and students.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today’s One Thing for Leaders: Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week from a Distance
This installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders explores ways to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week in a remote learning environment.
Strategies
Remote Learning: Planning for Improvement
This resource is intended to help school and district leaders understand, reflect upon, and prioritize actions to improve student learning in remote settings.
Artifacts
ExcEL Leadership Academy Micro-credential Pathway Adoption in Rhode Island
Despite calls to modernize education preparation, the way we train, support, and grow educators has remained largely unchanged for decades. But some educator training and professional development organizations are taking a different approach by...
Artifacts
Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders
This paper describes effective district implementation strategies to convert traditional, one-size-fits-all models of education into more personalized, competency-based learning environments to meet students’ needs. This paper highlights strategies...
Artifacts
Kotter's Eight-Step Change Process
Dr. John Kotter has researched the processes of leaders trying to transform or execute their strategies for over four decades. Through this work, he identified and described success factors in a framework for chance called the 8-Step Process for...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today's One Thing for Leaders: What's Next? Planning for Success When There Is No Plan
This installment of Today's One Thing for Leaders explores how education leaders can think about planning for the months ahead and the relaunch of learning in the fall.
