This is a resource on the Carnegie Summit's transition from an in-person event to a virtual experience.
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
Beyond High School: Centering Students in Virtual Learning Design Community Design Partners organized a series of Design Camps this summer with Black, Latino and low income middle/high school students and their teachers in Baltimore, Dallas and Oregon. This report explains the purpose of design camp and includes profiles from NSIs as they capture student voice.
What if School Looked Like This? Centering Students in Virtual Learning Design Community Design Partners organized a series of Design Camps this summer with Black, Latino and low income middle/high school students and their teachers in Baltimore, Dallas and Oregon. Participants shared stories and experiences from online learning and designed prototypes for centering relationships and improving virtual learning spaces. This report shares these student-centered change ideas, in addition to specific tools and tips for how educators can center students in their own designs.
This paper outlines the process behind the development of the Intermediary Capacity Framework (ICAF), now known as the Framework for Improvement Teams (FIT). It also discusses the development and use of self-assessment tools to help intermediary leaders identify their areas for growth and take action to grow their capacity to lead strong networks of school improvement.
"On-track data teams promote collaboration and contribute to school improvement and student success. To maximize their impact, on-track data teams require careful planning and attention to detail." In this guide, CT RISE shares key lessons and strategies around data used in high schools in the RISE Network to promote engagement, on-track achievement, and college and career readiness.
This in-person session at the hybrid June 2022 NSI CoP convening helped participants to experience some of the ways High Tech High connects people to each other, share powerful ways participants have connected people in their work, and leave with tools that can be used with network and improvement teams.
In late July of 2021, Catalyst:Ed convened 25 educational leaders and service providers with deep expertise in SEL and/or Family Engagement from their network to engage in a two-day action sprint. This report, and accompanying synopsis, capture direct excerpts from their discourse and summarizes the primary themes touched on in these discussions.
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.
