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At C!E, we lean into the concept of “leading with learning” and delight in digging into nerdy topics, lines of inquiry with colleagues, and asking the hard questions. This blog serves as a sandbox, our testing ground, and space for rumination to share out C!E’s work.
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Kentucky's Durable Education Leadership
It was the result of a years-long, inclusive design process that reshaped not just Kentucky’s accountability system, but how leadership in the state was perceived.
7 days ago
Education Leadership Shifts: Focus on Stakeholders, Not Washington
Leadership comes from the depth, quality, and diversity of our relationships and the transparency of our efforts.
Feb 14
A Better Way to Strategic Planning: How Bellevue School District is Leading with Community Voice
For state and district ed leaders looking to reimagine their own strategic planning process, there’s a lot to learn from Bellevue’s journey.
Dec 10, 2024
CIE Receives EduDream Grant to Study Innovative Assessment and Accountability Practices with Allen County Schools
The Center for Innovation in Education (CIE), in partnership with Allen County Schools in Kentucky and education researchers at the...
Sep 23, 2024
Hold That Mandate!
A broader understanding of "scaling" that goes beyond mere spread is necessary to understand how new ideas take hold.
Aug 29, 2024
Revolutionizing State Assessments: How to Answer Sec. Cardona's Call for Innovation
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Cardona In a November letter to chief state school officers , Secretary of Education Miguel...
Feb 7, 2024
Road Signs from a New Path Forward
By Jennifer Poon and Paul Leather Download the full report by clicking on the image above or the download link below. “We are greater...
Apr 19, 2023
Sharing Our Learning: Principles of Practice for Learning Community Stewardship
When I worked at the Colorado Department of Education, Paul Leather, then the Deputy Commissioner for NH and happily now my colleague...
Sep 12, 2022
Teachers of New Mexico: the Nation is Watching and Taking Your Lead
By Paul Leather, C!E's Director of the Interstate Learning Community This blog post originally appeared on Future Focused Education's blog...
Dec 6, 2021
New Report: Measuring Forward - Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation
Dear Friends, Today we are sharing a new seminal report called Measuring Forward: Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation ....
Nov 16, 2021
New from Our Communities
This week we shared about exciting changes at C!E , and today we follow on with exciting movements in our partner organizations and...
Oct 8, 2021
C!E Announces New Partner and Other Organizational Updates
Hello colleagues and friends! We have been a little quiet in our communications recently as we managed a number of big projects and made...
Oct 6, 2021
Accountability, Reciprocity, and Redistributing Power
The Reciprocity Project Interviews C!E's Doannie Tran In our Invitation to a New Path Forward: Seeking Equity Together Through Assessment...
Apr 1, 2021
Investing in Learning
Structuring Education Funds to Innovate Out of the Pandemic and into a Brighter Future for All Learners By Gene Wilhoit and Jennifer Poon...
Mar 16, 2021
Equity-Seeking Leadership in Two Contexts: Original Innovation in Hawai’i Inspires New Hampshire
The author and researcher Mark Moore asks leaders endeavoring to improve society to consider how clearly and effectively they can...
Feb 19, 2021
Why Do We Have Two Systems of Accountability?
By Paul Leather, Director of the Interstate Learning Community “…I ‘walk out’, further out of my certitudes, ‘walk on’ further into...
Dec 15, 2020
Origins of the C!E Theory of Action
Part 2: Cynefin and Tenets Building on the previous blog’s discussion of fractals, and how they both help explain why recent reforms fell...
Dec 10, 2020
Origins of the C!E Theory of Action
Part 1- Fractals Our last blog ended with a declaration that the few blogs to follow were going to get nerdy about why we think local...
Dec 8, 2020
Ode to November 2020
Dear November, I know we have always been polite to one another, but I feel I need to come clean and let you know that to me, we have...
Nov 18, 2020
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