Introduction
This page contains information and resources that will help you understand our view of implementing PreK-3 systems. The model above contains three main components (Core Elements, Framework Components, and Implementation Drivers) and two results (Population and Program). The model guides the development of our professional learning opportunities, and can also be used to guide the implementation of local PreK-3 systems.
Key assumptions of the model:
- Throughout every level, the model is focused on building, developing, and supporting adult competencies. The knowledge, skills, and attitudes of all adults in the PreK-3 system are essential ingredients. Therefore, capacity-building is integrated into the model and necessary in all work.
- All PreK-3 capacity-building efforts should be systemic, integrated, and sustained. PreK-3 is not a educational fad or simply a strategy. Rather, it is a K-12 reform effort that involves creating and implementing a system.
Moral Imperative
- Ensure maximum achievement of all students by collaborating to continually improve leadership, teaching, and systems.
Mission
- Design, collaborate, and provide high-quality professional learning opportunities that support the implementation and enhancement of PreK-3 systems in Minnesota schools, districts, and communities.
Core Elements
The Core Elements are organizational conditions necessary for innovation and change. The elements we use in the P3 Implementation Model come from Transcend.
- CONVICTION in the importance of the journey
- CLARITY on their vision and what it will take to achieve that vision
- CAPACITY to build and implement their ideas
- COALITION of broad and diverse stakeholders supporting the journey
- CULTURE of innovation, trust, and learning
For more information, see this two page brochure from Transcend.
Complexity & Sense-Making
The Cynefin Company - Making Sense of Complexity
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Design
Community-Based Design
Click Here, UX Collective
Community-Based, Human-Centered Design
Click Here, JND.ORG
Design Principles for Community-Based Settings: Putting the Science of Learning and Development Into Action
Click Here, The Forum for Youth Investment
Exploring, Defining, & Advancing Community-Driven Design for Social Impact
Click Here, In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 373–376. https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3319998
Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design
Click Here, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Organization Design
Click Here, MindTools
Redesigning Our Schools, Reinventing the Future
Click Here, The Systems Thinker
The Design Society
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Education/Learning Ecosystem
A New PK-12 Education Ecosystem Framework for a New Normal
Click Here, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Social Impact Review
Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation
Click Here, Global Education Futures Foundation
The learning ecosystem: What it is, how to build one, and why
Click Here, Big Think
What is a Learning Ecosystem
Click Here, EdTech Center, World Education
What's An "Educational Ecosystem" And Are You In One?
Click Here, IRIS Connect
Equity and Equality
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
Click Here, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Outsmarting Implicit Bias
Click Here, Harvard University
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University
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Framework Elements
The framework elements are the eight buckets of The Framework for Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating PreK-3rd Grade Approaches (Kauerz & Coffman, 2013).
See each of the framework elements for further information.
Click here for Overview of Framework Elements page
Leadership
Bias for Action – Meaning, Definition & Examples
Click Here, Harappa Learning
How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research - Executive Summary
Click Here, Wallace Foundation
Transforming Educational Systems Toward Continuous Improvement: A Reflection Guide for K–12 Executive Leaders
Click Here, Carnegie Foundation
Learning Organization
Building Organizational Learning Infrastructures
Click Here, The Systems Thinker
What are the Foundations of a Learning Organization?
Click Here, Logicearth Learning Services
Mapping
Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning
Click Here, infed.org
Guide to Actor Mapping
Click Here, FSG
Ladder of Inference, The
Click Here, The Systems Thinker
Metaphorical Thinking
Click Here, Mind Tools
Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work
Click Here, Harvard Business Review
Organograms
Click Here, MindTools
Wardley Value Chain Mapping: What Is It & How To Create Yours
Click Here, Stephen Watts, BMC Blogs
Mental Models
Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtract (video)
Click Here, YouTube, Nature Video
Unlearning Mental Models
Click Here, Shift Thinking
P-3 Research & Resources
Building a Coherent P-12 Education System in California
Click Here, Foresight Law + Policy
Webinar on this work, Improving a Child’s Education Journey: A Conversation about K-12 Policy & Early Learning, YouTube
Early Learning Network
The Early Learning Network is working to improve the academic success of children, especially those from historically marginalized groups, by identifying research-proven policies and practices that narrow opportunity gaps and ensure early learning success is maintained as children transition from preschool to elementary school and beyond.
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National P-3 Center
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P-3 Alignment Projects
Click Here, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO)
Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center
Click Here, Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College of Education and Human Development
Results
The model contains both program and population results. The goal of our work is that Minnesota schools, communities, and districts implement effective and comprehensive PreK-3 systems.
When this happens, it is expected that:
- All Minnesota children will be ready for school and schools will be ready for children,
- Achievement gaps between children will be closed, and
- All 3rd graders will be reading at grade level
The results are aligned to the World's Best Workforce bill
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Systems Thinking/Work
Cabrera Research Lab
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How systems thinking compliments behavioural approaches in solving complex problems
Click Here, Monash University
Systems Practitioner
Click Here, Pauline Roberts
Systems Thinking
Click Here, Human Capital Asia (HCA) Academy
Systems Thinking Speech by Dr. Russell Ackoff
Click Here, YouTube
The Donella Meadows Project
Click Here, Academy for Systems Change
The Evolution of Lean Thinking - Transitioning from Lean Thinking to FLOW Thinking
Click Here, InfoQ
The Systems Thinker
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The Systems View
Click Here, The Biomimicry Institute
The Waters Center for Systems Thinking
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Team Science
Team Science
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The Most Important System in the Modern Company: An Internal Marketing System
Click Here, Cabrera Research Lab
