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Putting the Horse Before the Cart: A County Office of Education’s Journey to Support School Districts in System-Level Problem Analysis
(2017-05-01)
In recent years, California overhauled its basic structure and funding system for Lead Education Agencies (LEA). This movement provided LEAs with more local flexibility and converted the county office of education role to ...
Delivering Blended Value in the Education Marketplace
(2017-05-01)
I served as a resident at Education First (Ed First), a national, mission-driven, for-profit organization that provides a wide array of policy- and strategy-related services to support states, districts, policymakers, ...
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Design Breakthrough School Models: Strategic Community Building for Transcend
(2017-04-25)
Traditional “industrial model” schooling was created for a different era. Student outcomes have flat-lined, and student motivation is disturbingly low. To see both the change and leap in outcomes students deserve, we must ...
Impact Through Partnership: How District Central Offices Can Foster Principals’ Development as Effective Instructional Leaders Through Systems of Support, Development, and Accountability
(2017-05-01)
Public schools in the United States have not historically nor do they currently serve all students excellently and equitably. Principals are key stakeholders in educational transformation as the second most impactful ...
Intermediary Organizations and the Business of Impact: Enacting a Vision for Equity by Leveraging Learning
(2017-05-02)
Intermediary organizations are an increasingly relevant instrument for implementing policy and informing instructional practices in a growing school improvement industry. The Deeper Learning Equity Fellows (DLEF) is a ...
Helping Teacher-Created Ideas Survive and Thrive
(2017-05-01)
How might we encourage educators’ ideas and innovative approaches, and support the survival, sustenance, and growth of those ideas and innovations?
This essential question is relevant and important for the U.S. education ...
A Bias Toward Teams: Are We Teaming Well? Does It Even Matter? Implications for Teams in Public School Districts From a Case Study at Boston Public Schools
(2017-05-01)
Teams are at the heart of change efforts in public school districts all over the country. Within central offices, the nature of systems-level reform generally requires collaboration amongst diverse people with diverse ...
From Communication to Coherence: Leading Change
(2017-05-01)
This capstone chronicles the task of internal communication in service of coherence making as part of a comprehensive change underway within the New York City Department of Education. School district leaders everywhere ...
Beyond Minimally Adequate: Building Public Support for High-Quality, Accessible Charter Schools in South Carolina
(2017-05-01)
This capstone examines a strategic initiative to bring about policy changes that would facilitate the growth of high-quality charter schools specifically serving historically underserved students in the state of South ...
Partner Up: The Role of Collaboration in Education
(2017-05-01)
Individuals and organizations collaborate when they are unable to achieve their goals on their own. Considering the complex and ambitious goals of many education organizations, the education sector would appear ripe for ...