The UChicago Network for College Success (NCS) currently partners with 17 high schools in our NSI in Chicago. NCS Coaches developed the Key Driver Diagram as a model or frame for educators in our Freshman Success Improvement Community. The document shows the AIM of the network and the key drivers that will impact the work of improving educator practice and student outcomes. Also included are measures and change ideas. As continuous improvement is an iterative and collaborative process, NCS will tune and refine the Key Driver Diagram over time.
How we use the resource:
This document is used as a living model for the work of improving Freshman Success in our NSI. For the Exchange, this document is an example of a Key Driver Diagram and how NCS and our partner schools are engaging in CI. We recommend others use it a reference.
The District Guide for Creating Indicators for Early Warning Systems presents extensive research about early warning indicators and actionable strategies and considerations for developing and implementing early warning indicators.
This resource was created as part of the project, Data Strategy and Google Suite Reconfiguration, listed through Catalyst:Ed.
Our Data Sharing Agreement template is what we use to outline our partnership, including what data will be provided by the districts participating in our network.
MAEC’s CI4E Resource Hub offers an equity-focused online survey tool to explore how your team centers equity at the Designing a Theory of Improvement stage. Afterward, you’ll receive a custom resource list that supports an equity-driven continuous improvement process.
Description: The online survey tool contains a series of equity questions for each CI stage that serve as an entry point for improvement teams to examine how their leadership, structures, and processes support equity work and areas to consider.
When using this resource, keep in mind: Intentionally infusing, prioritizing, and sustaining equity practices to an improvement project often requires a mindset change for those engaged in this work. Teams should consider the following areas during the planning and implementation of the improvement process:
• Representation: How your team’s knowledge, social identities, and biases impact your work
• Structures: How the design of your team’s systems embed or disrupt equity
• Process: How equity plays a role in your team’s decision-making
MAEC’s CI4E Resource Hub offers an equity-focused online survey tool to explore how your team centers equity at the Determining an Aim stage. Afterward, you’ll receive a custom resource list that supports an equity-driven continuous improvement process.
Description: The online survey tool contains a series of equity questions for each CI stage that serve as an entry point for improvement teams to examine how their leadership, structures, and processes support equity work and areas to consider.
When using this resource, keep in mind: Intentionally infusing, prioritizing, and sustaining equity practices to an improvement project often requires a mindset change for those engaged in this work. Teams should consider the following areas during the planning and implementation of the improvement process:
• Representation: How your team’s knowledge, social identities, and biases impact your work
• Structures: How the design of your team’s systems embed or disrupt equity
• Process: How equity plays a role in your team’s decision-making
• Describing the Aim: How the development and results of your work align with community values
This is a resource on the Carnegie Summit's transition from an in-person event to a virtual experience.
In this recording, City Year voices provides a voiceover to their Fall Change Package. This change package encourages listeners explore how to apply CI to new problems. This resource specifically shared the application of CI practices to the development and strengthening of SEL work.
As you continue to test out new ideas through CI, check out these resources to ensure equity is the core of every idea.
The resources in this collection will help your team explore different approaches used by schools and districts with 9th grade on-track goals. You will be able to access protocols, research, tools, and exemplars that offer evidence-based approaches to improvement in this area.
