Prepare Your Team.
RESOURCES FOR FACILITATORS
The journey will take some unexpected twists and turns. You’ll get clearer on what success might look like, take detours from the plan, enlist new people and hopefully have some authentic revelations that shift how you do your work. We recommend having a single thought-catcher for the steps below, so check out this “plan your journey” workspace.
Our Mindsets
We encourage folks to adopt a set of orientations that are designed to break the status quo. How might you and your team channel these along the way? We like to use them as community norms and offer them as a a prompt for sharing shout-outs.
Dream Big + Take Risks
Step out of your comfort zone in pursuit of breakthroughs.
Build – Iterate – Build
Refine and advance ideas through frequent creation and iteration.
Design With, Not For
Deeply partner with students, families, staff, and other members of your community.
Be Inspired
Get curious and seek provocations in unlikely places.
Question Everything
Surface assumptions and question them. Be open to changing your mind.
Leverage Strengths
Build from the strengths you, your students, and your community have.
Take the Wheel
Be on the hook for this community, your experience, and the impact this learning will have.
Readings, Videos and More
Refer here for some extra inspiration, pre-reading or extensions for your design teams, or to deepen your own learning.
DESIGN:
Liberatory Design Cards (these helped inspire our “design for equity” questions)
RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT:
Research and Development Insight; Transcend
Is Yours a Learning Organization?; David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson, Francesca Gino
CHANGE MANAGEMENT:
Leading Change; John Kotter
Unlearning is Critical for Deep Learning; Jal Mehta
The Irrational Side of Change Management; Carolyn Aiken, Scott Keller
ORGANIZING FOR INNOVATION:
The Ambidextrous Organization; Charles A. O'Reilly & Michael L. Tushman
Building a Culture of Innovation in Higher Education; 2Revolutions
The Split Screen Strategy; Ted Kolderie
LEARNING SCIENCE:
The Science of Learning; Deans for Impact
The Evidence Base for How We Learn: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development; The Aspen Institute
Motivation, Engagement, and Student Voice; Students at the Center
Mind, Brain, and Education; Students at the Center
Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Science Research; Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
ENGAGING COMMUNITIES:
If You Want Great Schools, First Work With Parents to Create ‘Actionable Demand’; Alex Cortez & Yordanos Eyoel
Why Stories Matter; Marshall Ganz
The Strengths and Challenges in Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy; Annenberg Institute
Choosing a school for my daughter in a segregated city; Nikole Hannah-Jones
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
The Work of Leadership; Ronald Heifetz and Donald Laurie
The Power of Vulnerability; Brene Brown
Overcoming your Immunity to Change; Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe; Simon Sinek
Lessons on Leading for Equity; Rob Larson and Rhonda Barton
Leading from Why; Simon Sinek
Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve; Jim Collins
How Women are Leading the Black Lives Matter Movement; Jihan Hafiz
The Discipline of Innovation; Peter Drucker
Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments; Ron Ashkenas and Robert Hausmann
How to Build your Creative Confidence; David Kelley
Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning: Inspiring Stories from Next Gen Schools; Getting Smart and NGLC
What Compels People to Pursue Radical Innovations in Education?; Bernard Bull