Program Highlights Archives – Page 2 of 13

Systems Change Requires Courageous Patience

August 1, 2024 | Sarah Sugarman

Culture change is slow. At the same time, as inequitable student outcomes persist year after year, the need for change is urgent. Leaders who seek systemwide transformation are often caught between their sense of urgency and the pace...

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Disrupting Inequity, Creating Coherence: A Look Inside a System-Wide Partnership with Tamalpais Union High School District

July 5, 2024 | Mahru Elahi

When a district sees awesome academic results for its white students and abysmal results for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students, there is a need for coherent, system-wide change. Tamalpais Union High School District (TUHSD) in Northern...

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Supportive Challenge

July 5, 2024 | Charley Brooks

Everyone listened intently as a focal student shared his sadness of having no friends on his teacher’s audio-recorded data. “No one likes me,” he complained. The room paused as educators took notes to support their colleague, the Public...

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Collaboration Brings Authentic Learning to Quality Program Improvement

January 30, 2024 | Nina Portugal

As Vallejo City Unified School District Site Coordinators entered their monthly professional development with Lead by Learning the room was immediately abuzz with conversations about their sites. Since 2021, Lead by Learning has been a partner...

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Four teacher scholars look at video data of student learning

Lead by Learning Alumni Network

December 5, 2023 | Charley Brooks

Last month, Lead by Learning hosted our second Alumni Connect meet-up event and reconnected past Lead by Learning participants with their roots in inquiry! Designed to be 1-hour professional learning experiences, alums have an opportunity to...

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“Are We Who We Say We Are?” A Look Inside an ILT Partnership with Luther Burbank Middle School

October 4, 2023 | Mahru Elahi

Luther Burbank Middle School is located in Highland Park, a largely Latino and immigrant community nestled close to the arid hills of northeastern Los Angeles county. Christine Moore, the longtime Principal, continually asks herself as...

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Public Learning Promotes Vulnerability and Courage

September 13, 2023 | Brooklyn Joseph

It was mid-afternoon, about 15 minutes into our Instructional Leadership Team meeting at one of our partner schools. When it was the next teacher leader’s turn to be our Public Learner, about one...

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“Tending our Roots: Cultivating Joy” OUSD Expanded Learning Office Summer Institute

August 15, 2023

This summer Oakland Unified School District’s Expanded Learning Office brought together Site Coordinators and Agency Directors for their annual Summer Institute. This year’s theme is “Tending our Roots: Cultivating Joy.” Lead by Learning supported the OUSD Expanded Learning...

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Building Collective Efficacy by Marking Learning Visible

June 2, 2022 | Nina Portugal

At Lead by Learning, we know that collaborative inquiry builds teachers’ and leaders’ local knowledge about how best to support their students’ and colleagues’ learning. By sharing that knowledge publicly, they develop a collective understanding of where their...

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Program Highlight: How the Oakland Library Leadership Team Brought Inquiry District Wide

May 17, 2022 | Nina Portugal

What would it look like to use our monthly professional development time to support our librarian community to grow as professionals? How can we be less reactive and operational and more proactive and adaptive?...

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