DL2 partners with leaders in individual districts and district networks to help them use the latest research and data to transform their central offices into engines of educational equity.

The Central Office Transformation for Equity Network (The Central Office TEN)

The Central Transformation for Equity Network (“Central Office TEN”) engages district leaders committed to advancing central office transformation for equity using anti-racist leadership practices. Leaders convene online and onsite in participating districts to learn while doing — deepening their understanding of central office transformation for equity and antiracism as they design and implement their own approaches and support each other’s efforts.

In the process, the network is producing resources for the field including:

Tools to help leaders move research into practice.

New knowledge about how central offices drive equitable teaching and learning.

New knowledge about how central offices support educational equity.

Link to the press release: https://education.uw.edu/news/central-office-ten-launches-support-educational-equity-practices-school-districts

We would like to acknowledge our sponsor:

The Central Office Human Resources Transformation (COHRT) Learning Series and Network

The COHRT Learning Series is a set of on-line experiences that aim to help Human Resources directors and staff in Washington State school districts transform their HR units into drivers of teacher quality and diversity.

The series is:

Forward thinking. Focused not on the running HR as-is but on helping district leaders ensure HR runs the way it needs to to drive teacher quality and diversity.

Research- and data-based. Anchored in the latest research on how HR matters to teacher quality and diversity and promoting data practices to drive improvement.

Rooted in active learning strategies. Engaging participants to actively use the research and data to lead HR forward.

DL2 is partnering with Center for Education Data and Research (CEDR, led by Dan Goldhaber) to develop this series to include the latest research and experience with teacher labor market dynamics as well as how school district central office HR units support teacher quality and diversity.

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We are creating this series because research and experience show that:

Teacher quality and diversity are main drivers of student learning, especially for students identifying as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, students of color, and affected by low-income circumstances.
School district central office HR units can lead powerfully for teacher quality and diversity.
But too often HR units and their leaders lack support for such leadership.

The urgency for HR leaders to have the right support has only become more acute as school districts continue to move out of the Covid-19 pandemic and face teacher shortages and new challenges recruiting and retaining teachers of color. Fortunately, research and experience in the field has grown in ways that provide new promising, rigorous, and practical guides for action.

The COHRT Network is a group of HR Directors from Washington State school districts who are helping DL2 and CEDR pilot the series. Network members have demonstrated:

Demonstrated commitment to HR transformation for equity,
Readiness to pilot the learning series, and
Willingness to provide thought partnership

Link to the press release: https://education.uw.edu/news/central-office-human-resources-transformation-network-launches-improve-teacher-quality

Leaders at the Center. A Research Practice Partnership with Highline Public Schools (WA)

Leaders at the Center is a long-term Research Practice Partnership between Highline Public Schools and DL2 to support innovation in central office transformation for equity. DL2 works closely with HPS leaders to use the latest research in the field to design and implement their own approaches to central office transformation that reflect and push beyond the research.

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We would like to acknowledge our sponsor:

Central office transformation is…. “not a policy or a program. It’s about rooting out racism and laying down new roots.”

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Partnerships

The Central Office Transformation for Equity Network (The Central Office TEN)

The Central Office Human Resources Transformation (COHRT) Learning Series and Network

Leaders at the Center. A Research Practice Partnership with Highline Public Schools (WA)