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Step 4: Championing Sustainable Change - Creating systems for leaders, teams, and their initiatives
The never-ending cycle of growth and change in schools often elicits mixed reactions. Some see these new trends as much-needed progress, while others “see déjà vu all over again.” Evolving science and research, alongside increased complexity that...
Step 2: Learning to Sprint - Leveraging Small Wins Along the Road Toward Large-Scale Change
Referring to all aspects of life as a marathon has become something of a cliche. While the metaphor may feel harmless in many ways, this perspective is problematic for a few reasons. For starters, Pheidippides – the soldier who ran about 25 miles to...
Sustainable Change, One Step at a Time
We are living in a tumultuous time for education. If you’re feeling more exhausted and frustrated than ever before, you are not alone. The COVID pandemic has created a marathon of emergencies and urgent initiatives, leaving educators and ed leaders...
Hit Pause: 3 Steps to Bring Humanity into Decision-Making Processes This Summer
Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge"; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters. - Rebecca Solnit “Unprecedented” has become the oft-used term to describe this...
Advice: Common Pitfalls & Tips for Success in Design Work
Learnings from Strategy Lab school systems using the Real-Time Redesign toolkit The design process is transformational and thrilling – but not without its challenges. Here, we surface six common pitfalls, along with potential ways to avoid these...
What We Learned from the Strategy Lab
Reflections from our work with seven districts during the pandemic In our work to support seven school systems from the Strategy Lab through the Real-Time Redesign process, we encountered three powerful takeaways about what it means to advance...
Every education leader deserves expert coaching to manage through and beyond COVID-19
Every education leader deserves expert coaching to manage through and beyond COVID-19: Here’s what we learned from trying to deliver on this visionWhen schools abruptly closed for in-person learning last spring, hundreds of thousands of district and...
TLA's Top Blogs of 2019
Before we head into a brand new year, we’re taking time to reflect on the innovation and achievement in education we’ve had the opportunity to witness in 2019. The TLA team and guest experts highlighted exciting work on our blog throughout this...
Planting Trees Under Which You May Never Sit: The long-term work of school transformation
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson Transforming schools and districts from industrial models to student-centered ones is bold, noble, worthy work that requires a sustained...
Failing Forward: What school innovation networks have taught me about learning from failures
Do you think about failure as a way to look at how to transform education? The last two years have enhanced my abilities to do just that! I credit the state and national innovative leadership networks that I belong to for opening my eyes to look at...
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