Designing for Learning

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School Improvement Processes

Curriculum audits, data review and goal setting for districts or individual schools. Universal screening and vertical curriculum discussions to meet the needs of students.

• What’s the outcome you want?

• Who’s responsible?

• In which quadrant are you spending the majority of your time?

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Creativity in Crisis

How might leaders leverage the current crisis to move their organizations forward intentionally so all students have opportunities? Which voices ~critical for innovation~ are missing? What have we learned from the rapid transformations schools districts have made? What practices and options should remain? What still needs to change? 

Which systems are crucial when supporting the social emotional and academic needs of principals, teachers and students through transition planning?

Leadership Development

The success of your organization depends on the leaders who lead them. We can help by providing a foundation of evidenced based, practical tools and processes to support leaders in their development to enhance future success. We will tailor the content and strategies based on the needs of your organization.

• Why Shared Leadership?

• Who am I as a Leader?

• Communication for Effective Teams

• Team Building

• Time Management

• Managing Conflict

• Understanding the Change Process

Design Thinking Processes

This workshop is for individuals and teams looking to both learn and practice a human-centered approach to innovation. Participants are guided through an engaging innovation project, which provides a safe space and structured method

to apply new learning. Workshop participants leave able to use a range of our proven approaches in their daily work and organizational initiatives. Facilitators use this process frequently in many of the services offered through learning, innovation and design services. It also can be used for a lead in to referendum planning.

Innovation & Collaboration

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Embracing Equity

Dismantling systemic bias, creating systems to support student voice.

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Pathways Design

The concept of Small Learning Communities (SLCs) is growing across the nation as an effective model to prepare all students for college AND career. A pathway is a sequence of courses within a chosen academy designed to help you prepare for a specific career area and meet the mandatory requirements for high school graduation. Pathways provide students and their families with a plan to connect coursework in high school with college and career opportunities after graduation.

Academies require a core curriculum such as English, Math, Science, Social Studies, and PE/Health,  Students experience a more personalized school day as they prepare for success in college and / or the workforce. Academies personalize learning by: 

• Providing project-based, interdisciplinary learning that immerses students in an authentic 'real world' experience.

• Engaging students by making classes relevant to personal interests and aspirations.

• Providing connections with local businesses and professionals, linking schoolwork and the workplace.

Academies or pathways can be in multiple areas including healthcare, construction, architecture, business, entrepreneurial, technology, manufacturing or hospitality.

Portrait of a Graduate

Every school system is unique, but they are connected by a shared aspiration: that all students have an educational experience to prepare them to be life-long learners and contributors to society. Now more than ever, that experience must not only provide for the acquisition of rigorous academic content, but it must also be more intentional about fostering critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, and other information skills our young people need to thrive in this complex, rapidly changing world.

Many school systems across the country have engaged their larger community in developing a Portrait of a Graduate, a collective vision that articulates the community’s aspirations for all students. Locally developed, but globally positioned, the Portrait of a Graduate serves as a North Star for system transformation. When embedded as part of the strategic direction for the redesign of the overall educational experience for students, this collective vision reinvigorates and re-engages students, teachers, and community stakeholders.

Community Involvement

Schools and communities thrive when they partner together to serve their students and families. Businesses and organizations are the “Champions” who serve as content experts, mentors and coaches. Often they have direct contact with students and guides assisting the district so students are employable in their organizations upon graduation.

There is a two-way partnership when businesses and students and families benefit from true collaboration.

Social & Emotional Learning

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