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.
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.
Workouts for Continuous Improvement is a free resource for education teams. Each workout takes 90 minute or less to complete and be used as part of a series or standalone exercise. Each workout follows a six-step process, real-life example, and facilitator's guide.
This document offers a menu of change ideas available to network members as a way to support their continuous improvement work. Each change idea includes the scenario and topic it addresses, the levers to improve, what the improvement team will test to monitor progress, and the opportunity to designate roles.
This slide deck is from a session where members of Eskolta shared examples of recent initiatives centering and uplifting student voice, including the establishment of a Youth Advisory Board (YAB), a Youth Participatory Action Research Committee (YPAR), and the development of a continuum of student voice in research (framework). Additionally, they shared possibilities for partnering with students using resources from studentpoweredimprovement.com. Participants left this session with deepened knowledge about strategies for embedding student voice.
This report and summary from PACE shares lessons gleaned from work with two learning networks, CORE Districts and California Education Partners. Their findings include insights on data infrastructure, practical measurement, continuous improvement language, and network development.
RAND's comprehensive report shared findings from the RAND American Instructional Materials Survey (AIRS). This report shares lessons and practices that states are implementing to support high-quality instructional materials and professional development in districts and schools.
This report by Teaching Matters shares three takeaways from the implementation of a change idea called "Identity Questions". To implement this change idea, teachers purposefully adapted and adopted a practice of including questions that connect identity and content at key junctures in their lessons.
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.
