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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
District-Level Learnings From the Field: What Needs to be True When Redesigning School District Systems and Structures for Human Thriving?
Part of the BELE learning series, this paper explores insights from our equity initiatives in partner districts. It focuses on the conditions necessary to create equitable learning environments that enhance the student experience, and where districts should focus their efforts to sustain meaningful change.
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Transformative Equity | Organizational Condition Guide
People feel more informed and purposeful when they work together to identify, understand, and address equity issues in their organization—if they experience transformative equity. Created to support Catalyze users or anyone interested in improving organizational conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to transformative equity.
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Supportive Leadership | Organizational Condition Guide
People feel cared for and are more committed to their organization when they work with leaders who invest in relationships and model competence and humility—if they experience supportive leadership. Created to support Catalyze users or anyone interested in improving organizational conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to supportive leadership.
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Inclusive Empowerment | Organizational Condition Guide
People have higher levels of motivation and commitment when they feel comfortable sharing their perspectives, have opportunities to participate in decision-making, and believe that the organization is willing to make changes—if they experience inclusive empowerment. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions in schools, this guide introduces…
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Collective Vision | Organizational Condition Guide
People are more invested in initiatives if they play a role in setting the vision for those initiatives—if they experience collective vision. Created to support Catalyze users or anyone interested in improving organizational conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to collective vision.
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
The 180 Podcast: LaShawn Routé Chatmon and Kathleen Osta: What Is an Equitable Learning Environment and How Can Your School Build One?
We hear a lot today about the importance of creating equitable learning environments for all young people – providing each child what they need to learn, develop healthily, and thrive, which means some might need more than others depending on their starting point. From classrooms to local school board meetings, the issue – if not…
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Leading With Courage and Commitment: Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Schools
Over the past two decades, many school districts across the United States have engaged in some form of ‘equity work’ in an effort to change persistent racialized patterns in student experience and achievement. Communities have engaged in a wide range of efforts to increase opportunity and expand educational excellence and equity. While the impacts of…
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Learning Partnerships
Each school has a “sphere of success,” a set of students for whom current practices are working to get on the path to college and career-readiness. Regardless of how successful a school is, not every child is within its sphere of success. In order to bring increasing numbers of young people into that sphere, educators…