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When thinking about your team’s DEI capacities, it might be helpful to think about equity as it shows up in your internal team and as it shows up externally in your work and interactions with external stakeholders
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Understand the System
Build Commitment to a Clear & Specific Aim
Develop a Shared Theory of Practice Improvement
Support Disciplined Inquiry Cycles
Definition: Ability to use multiple and varied forms of data, structured tools or protocols, and input from those most affected by the system to help improvement teams clearly see the root causes that produce current inequitable outcomes.
Definition: Ability to successfully lead teams through a process of developing and committing to a measurable, time-bound, culturally-responsive, and asset-based target of improved outcomes for defined student groups.
Definition: Demonstrated strengths in leveraging research, data, and practical knowledge to build, articulate, and iterate on a shared theory of how to reach the defined aim.
Definition: Ability to help teams identify logical and relevant strategies, implement and use feedback and data to test those strategies, reflect, and take action based on what they learned.
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Network Initiation
Network Cohesion
Network Management
Network Member Development
Knowledge Management
Definition: Ability to identify, recruit, onboard, and set clear expectations, roles, and responsibilities for network members.
Definition: Demonstrated ability to intentionally shape interactions and connections between network members to deepen a community-aligned identity, exchange knowledge through shared learning, and interact regularly around common problems of practice.
Definition: Experience developing and following an intentional plan of routines and activities with network members, while responding to data and feedback, to ensure the network maintains momentum and stays on track.
Definition: Ability to design and execute inclusive and engaging in-person or virtual gatherings of network members focused on accelerating participants' knowledge, skills, learning, and connection.
Definition: Experience developing and managing routines to surface lessons from research and practice, consolidate or adapt where necessary, and make readily available to network members on a shared platform to accelerate learning.
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We do this well and consistently
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We do this well and consistently
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Data Infrastructure
Analytics, Measurement, & Evaluation
Practical Measurement
Definition: Ability to reliably and securely collect, connect, manage, and report data from across the network.
Definition: Ability to collect, analyze, and report on data to determine where, whether, and how the network is moving toward the aim, as well as to share and celebrate successes.
Definition: Experience successfully helping improvement teams identify, collect, analyze, and discuss the data necessary to understand if and how disciplined inquiry cycles are having intended effects for the population they are designed to reach.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Student Agency
Family & Community Engagement
Definition: Ability to create an environment of involvement, respect, and connection, and empowerment among team members from a wide range of identities, perspectives, and experiences so they can work across schools to ensure that student access, participation, and outcomes are not correlated with demographic factors.
Definition: Ability to support school-based teams to meaningfully include students in the improvement process by creating frequent, supportive, and inclusive opportunities for dialogue, input, reflection, analysis, and co-creation of action steps.
Definition: Ability to support school and district leaders to meaningfully include families, and the community in the improvement process by creating frequent, supportive, and inclusive opportunities for dialogue, input, reflection, analysis, and co-creation of action steps.
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We do this well and consistently
School Leadership & Leader Support
District Leadership & Leader Support
Definition: Experience supporting school leaders to exhibit consistent, supportive, and inclusive leadership in schools to build a healthy culture for staff and students.
Definition: Experience supporting district leaders to exhibit consistent, strategic, and inclusive leadership across district departments and schools to ensure the work of the improvement teams remains a top priority.
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We do some of this but need to get more rigorous
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We do this well but need to get consistent
We do this well and consistently
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