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Build Support, Innovate, Repeat: Agile Public Education in Colorado
By: Tom Vander Ark. With thoughtful sustained leadership, big school districts can earn community trust, establish and maintain rigorous academic standards, and become agile—even innovative. This is one district's story.
Three Strategies for Providing Top-down Support for Bottom-up Change
The Colorado Education Initiative partnered with Stanford University’s School Retool Fellowship to empower Colorado school and district leaders to be the agents of change for equitable deeper learning.
The Brave Administrator’s Playbook for Upping Their Game Each New School Year
By: Amy Rodriguez. Often, when it comes to the new school year, the wheels keep spinning and the cycle begins again. But they don’t have to: focusing on professional growth is one way to become a more efficient and effective administrator for the coming year.
The One Thing Innovative School Leaders Should Do Before School Ends
By: Jason Green. There are precious few days of school left in most districts. For school leaders who have been hoping to kick off a new, student-centered approach to teaching, there is still time--here, we look at one simple strategy.