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.

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About the Central Office TEN

The Central Office Transformation for Equity Network (“Central Office TEN”) supports Cabinet-level leaders in successfully designing and implementing central office transformation for equity in their districts. Network members are leaders from school districts who have committed to central office transformation. Over an academic year, leaders convene online and onsite in participating districts to learn while doing — deepening their understanding of central office transformation as they realize their own approaches and support each other’s efforts.

“The Central Office TEN learning has been really powerful for us. They provide tools and processes and the research—we just come back and back to the research like our North Star to check, “Do we really understand these ideas? Are we moving them forward in the best ways?”
-Superintendent

Join Cohort 3 in 2025-2026

Are you a district leader looking for research and peer support for transforming your central office to grow principal leadership of deeper, equitable teaching and learning districtwide? Motivated now more than ever to ensure your central office does the right work on behalf of your students?

Consider joining Cohort 3 of the Central Office TEN for 2025-26.

“The Central Office TEN has really catalyzed us to take our work to the next level…. Now it’s not just me but… [the rest of the Cabinet] meeting regularly, going to the consultancies, seeing, ‘Hey, we can do this.”
-Associate Superintendent of Teaching & Learning

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Participate in a webinar for a network overview at https://washington.zoom.us/j/3807996198.

April 2, 2025, 12-1pm PT
April 7, 2025, 12-1pm PT
April 21, 2025, 12-1pm PT

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“The culture here [in this district] is everyone is double booked and everything has to get done by yesterday so we get like in this cycle of having no time and all overwhelm…. The [Central Office TEN] consultancies keep us on track… Every month we say, “Where do we want to be by the next consultancy? How are we clearing our calendars to do that work?” Then, just before, we huddle and choose what to share for peer support…. It’s no beauty contest. The protocol says to bring our latest real work in progress…. I thought my team would struggle with that. Now they kind of fight over who gets to go next.”
-Chief Talent Officer

With generous support from

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

Principal Administrator

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