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.

Recent partnerships:

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

The Central Transformation for Equity Network (“Central Office TEN”) engages leaders from six U.S. school districts who have committed to advancing central office transformation for equity using anti-racist leadership practices. Over two years, 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.

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 (HR) directors and staff in Washington State school districts transform their HR units into drivers of teaching quality and teacher diversity. DL2 is developing the series with the Center for Education Data and Research (CEDR) led by Dan Goldhaber and the COHRT Network, a group of equity-focused HR directors from Washington State school districts.

COHRT activities are:

Forward thinking. Focused not on leading HR units as-is but those districts need to advance teaching quality and teacher diversity.

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

Rooted in active learning strategies. Engaging participants in using research and data in real time to lead HR transformation forward.

Our sponsor:

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

In Leaders at the Center, a long-term (2014-2023) Research Practice Partnership with Highline Public Schools (HPS), DL2 helped HPS leaders to use the latest research in the field to design and implement their own approaches to central office transformation that reflected and pushed beyond the research. Leaders reported improvements in the areas of Teaching & Learning and Human Resources.

For more about this RPP see: Transforming School District Offices into Engines of Equity

Our sponsors:

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

Urban district superintendent

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Partnerships

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