C!E System Transformation Practice Framework

Having partnered with some of the nation’s most effective leaders of systemic innovation, C!E began describing patterns among their work in the fall of 2018. The most important initial finding was that there is such a thing as innovation or transformational leadership in public systems. And that a general disposition of being learner centered, community driven, and oriented to continuous learning leads to changes in nearly all of the common behaviors of actors within the system. And that such changes are essential to disrupting the current self-preserving system tendencies and shifting the system to become ever more equity-seeking.

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C!E Essential Learning - New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (NH PACE)

C!E has long supported the assessment innovation work in New Hampshire. One such support was to contribute to a PACE implementation evaluation. The evaluation itself yielded a number of important assessment and system change insights. This brief highlights those insights and offers a few more recent insights from the great work underway in New Hampshire.

Written by Paul Leather and Jenny Poon

C!E System Transformation Policy Framework

Reflecting on the use of the assessment pilot authority in ESSA, and state level innovation policies in recent years, C!E first drafted and shared this policy framework with the Interstate Learning Community in the fall of 2018. It offers ideas to shift our general approach to innovation policies so that rather than expecting to see implementation of specific innovations spelled out in legislation, or giving funds for innovation without a plan for capturing or scaling learning from the investment -- the stated intended return for investing public innovation funds is learning. The principles in the framework can be applied in the design of state or federal policy, as well as grant RFPs.

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