Resources

Building on Siegel Family Endowment’s first white paper unpacking the need for a multidimensional approach to infrastructure, this white paper outlines how viewing schools as community infrastructure can lead to positive student and community outcomes.

This report outlines the opportunities and challenges facing a multidimensional approach and offers recommendations for mindsets, metrics, and money.

This tool is intended to assist schools, communities, and systems in recognizing the effectiveness of community-based design as a method for reshaping learning environments and expanding opportunities.

This article underscores the need for building and sustaining digital infrastructure in education, highlighting key considerations such as future-proofing, digital equity, and financial sustainability to ensure safe, accessible, and effective learning environments.

This white paper offers rationale for the need to transform education through a learner-centered paradigm and offers key design components to implement learner-centered approaches.

This plan offers recommendations for government, philanthropic, and school system leaders to effectively implement innovative student-centered learning models at scale.

This article highlights the importance of student-centered learning — and how accessible, personalized, and relevant education enhances student engagement and fosters critical thinking skills.

This article outlines a holistic ecosystem approach to education that could enable transformative learner centricity.

This toolkit for equity-focused school redesign offers practical strategies, policies, and practices to ensure equitable student outcomes.

This toolkit is designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decision-making, and to develop strategies and actions that reduce racial inequities and improve success for all groups.

This resource rates communities based on key measures of inclusive prosperity.

This article critiques the public sector model of “collective impact” and provides six principles for collaborative practice that promotes equity and justice.

The article outlines how past U.S. infrastructure projects have deepened systemic inequities, and how future efforts (including the historic $2.3 trillion of federal investments committed in recent years) can avert and even help rectify these disparities.

This book chapter outlines clear definitions of educational partnerships and reasons for promoting them within schools and classrooms.

This toolkit provides practical steps to help create a successful partnership, write an effective partnership agreement, and get collaboration off to a good start.

This cross-cutting resource bank provides tools to assess community needs and resources, address social determinants of health, engage stakeholders, conduct action planning, build leadership, improve cultural competency, plan an evaluation, and sustain efforts over time.

This toolkit offers various tips to evaluate student-centered learning.

This is a simple one-page template to help draft a theory of change by defining goals and stating how they will be achieved.

This self-guided mini-course provides an in-depth overview of the fundamental principles for monitoring and evaluation, and examples and case studies to demonstrate the concepts.

This training manual provides an overview of participatory program evaluation methodologies and in-depth tools, templates, and protocols to conduct monitoring and evaluation.

This resource for practitioners provides a variety of tools and templates to develop a scaling plan, establish the preconditions for scale, and manage the scaling process.

This education-focused resource provides guidelines for establishing a “real-time scaling lab,” the process of collaboratively documenting, learning from, and supporting ongoing efforts to scale and sustain the impact of an initiative.

The document shares insights and experiences from leaders in external-reform provider organizations regarding the practical implications of scaling up educational interventions, serving as a resource for those involved in education reform development and implementation.