Topic: Leadership

Design principles are four to seven ideas that align with the school’s mission and vision and act as a guiding light for the school-level team implementing change. This tool suggests steps a team might take to prepare for a design session on co-creating design principles, offers a protocol for facilitating the session and proposes next steps for taking design principles from draft form to final state.

In an effort to help teams, schools or districts self-assess their readiness to embark on this sort of work, we created this document to capture a common set of conditions

Educator teams meet for many reasons, and many of those meetings have moved online. The tips in this document are intended to help educator teams ensure meetings contribute positively to

Copper Trails principal Stacy E. Ellis shares how her criteria for hiring new educators changed as a result of teams adopting a Next Education Workforce model.

Copper Trails principal Stacy E. Ellis explains how her role as a school administrator has shifted to becoming more of an instructional leader as her teams have adopted Next Education

Krista Adams talks about how her role as principal of Stevenson Elementary School has shifted as her school has adopted a Next Education Workforce model.

Justin Wing, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources at Mesa Public Schools, shares three benefits of Next Education Workforce models — educator retention, educator leadership opportunities, and student learning.

Justin Wing, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources at Mesa Public Schools, shares two recommendations for those considering adopting Next Education Workforce models: changing your mindset and starting slowly.

Principled Innovation® is our ability to be able to ask the question, “We can, but should we?” In this clip, MLFTC Dean Carole Basile describes the connection between Principled Innovation and Next Education Workforce models.