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WHAT WE'RE LEARNING
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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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
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
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
Invitation to a New Path Forward: Seeking Equity Together Through Assessment and Accountability
Download a PDF version of this letter below.. As stewards of America’s noble endeavor to educate our children, it is our collective...
Nov 18, 2020
A letter from Gene Wilhoit: How might we respond to Secretary DeVos?
On September 3rd, all chief state school officers received an important letter from US Education Secretary DeVos regarding assessment and...
Sep 21, 2020
An Opportunity to do Great Things
By Sarah Lench, Director of Learning Networks for C!E The Washington Post recently ran an essay by Jeff Gregorich as part of the...
Aug 21, 2020
A COVID Conversation with Kentucky Teachers: Some Light in Dark Times
Download a PDF version of this blog post here. A new and unusual school year begins. Over the summer, teachers reflected on many...
Aug 13, 2020
“To pod or not to pod?” - There are actually more questions than that.
For privileged families, the question of pods is one of complexity, not chaos. By Michelle Ampong and Doannie Tran Families are...
Aug 6, 2020
Toiling in the Vineyard: State-Level Educational Intermediary Organizations in the Covid Era
From Scaling Up to Scaling Across: French winemakers use the term terroir to describe the unique characteristics that place bestows on...
Jul 1, 2020
Leading with Learning: Equity-Seeking Partnership
Sometimes, the systems that create inequity don’t know their own faces. As leaders seeking greater equity from within and outside of...
May 11, 2020
Leading with Learning: Equity Seeking Leadership in the COVID Era
In this letter to the field, Gene Wilhoit and Gretchen Morgan explore patterns emerging in leadership's response to COVID and make a case...
Apr 23, 2020
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