Improvement networks seek to solve complex problems in education, but little is known about how hub leaders build and manage these temporary learning organizations. In this workshop, hub leaders will use The Network Health Study’s Hub Leadership Framework to reflect on their own leadership practice, engage in collaborative problem solving around hub team design and common challenges leaders face, and engage in a reflective routine to strengthen hub leadership practice. We explicate the complexities of hub leadership practice while supporting leaders’ professional learning, providing tools, routines, and collaborative space to learn from each other.
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Bank Street Education Center (Bank Street) will highlight how to embed sustainability practices into CI work. Bank Street will share examples from their 5 + year partnership with Yonkers Public Schools (YPS). This session will share examples of how Bank Street navigated the local context and leadership transitions, cultivated a coalition of the willing among a network of schools, and supported district leaders in embedding CI practices into district-wide structures including their five-year strategic plan, math vision, PLCs, job descriptions, and data collection systems. Participants will hear examples from the field including course corrections in implementation, lessons learned, and sustainability wins.
Breakthrough Collaboratives are increasingly seen as promising strategies for advancing and spreading evidence-based interventions and transforming practice at scale. Most of the common professional knowledge about breakthroughs draws from IHI’s Breakthrough Collaborative model, but through this interactive session, participants will engage with design dilemmas related to launching and leading education-focused collaboratives. Participants will leave with practical insights about our shared opportunity to build requisite professional knowledge and supports for using this model to scale effective practices.
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