Alignment Director strategies for engaging stakeholders: leveraging existing networks, field-based pods, and cross-sector convenings¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The report documents implementable strategies ADs used to build statewide networks: leveraging previously established networks and individual connections; leveraging PARCC/Smarter Balanced consortia activities; fostering "field-based pods of activity, like regional councils and faculty work groups"; statewide committees with feedback loops (Hawaii's "road show" outreach); campus-based leadership teams (Louisiana); regional curriculum councils (Tennessee); and cross-sector steering committees, faculty work groups, and funded regional partnerships (Washington). Getting faculty engaged in hands-on work such as reviewing assessment items and course design was described as "the primary driver of Washington's grassroots efforts."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Designated resources, both monetary and personnel, since "Funding and designated personnel will be critical to continuing moving this work forward"

Constraints¶

• In Tennessee, council members were to share results with the larger community, but this happened in some cases, not all

Target Learners¶

• Alignment Directors, state education agencies, and higher education leadership

Target Learning Goals¶

• Building and sustaining cross-sector networks to support college readiness alignment

Affordances¶

• Social Network Analysis Nodes Ties Educational Reform

Related Strategies¶

• Analyze pre-existing network structures and points of leverage at the outset of a cross-sector reform initiative
• Build a College Promise team spanning internal campus units and external cross-segment and cross-sector partners

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Bracco, K. R., Klarin, B., Broek, M., Austin, K., Finkelstein, N., Bugler, D., & Mundry, S. (2014). Statewide networks: Connecting education systems and stakeholders to support college readiness. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED559537