a Playbook for School Redesign
Redesign school
around learners.
Whether you are opening a new school, starting a microschool or thinking about redesigning the structures at an existing school through a redesign process, this Playbook offers you tangible examples and tools to help you take your next steps.
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Three phases. Lasting change.
Redesign moves through three non-linear phases, always circling back to the learners at the center. Choose a phase to see what it asks of your community.
at the center
The dashed arc never closes — redesign has clear goals, but no end.
Pre-Planning
Leaders listen to their community, form a Design Team, get inspired by other models, and name a clear entry point and goals for the work ahead.
- Form a Design Team
- Listen to the community
- Get inspired with visits to other schools
- Determine an entry point
- Define redesign goals
Find your way in
Start with the question you're asking.
Whether you are curious, gathering evidence, or ready to begin, there is a place to enter the work.
Why does school need to change?
Understand the case for redesign, and hear from leaders already doing it.
See why nowWhat structures shape a learner-centered school?
Explore the ideas that give a different kind of school its shape.
Explore the structuresWho is redesigning in ways that can inspire our work?
Study communities making learner-centered education real.
Study school profilesWhere could our redesign begin?
Find a practical way into the work when your community is ready.
Explore the process