Education transformation doesn’t happen all at once. It happens through deliberate, everyday decisions. This strategy guide from KnowledgeWorks, Laying the Foundation for Transformational Change in Education, will help you get started on education systems change today to help create the future of learning.

Who can influence the future of learning?

This strategy guide is intended for you, as well as everyone else engaged in the world of education. This guide is for people already doing changemaking work in education, whether they call themselves leaders or not. Having people throughout a system or organization serve as and see themselves as leaders helps distribute ownership of change and sustain momentum over time.

This guide is for people working in or alongside education systems, including:

• Classroom teachers
• Building-, district- and state-level leaders
• Learning providers and innovators

No one person can bring about transformation on their own or all at once, and no one needs to. You simply need to lay the first brick.

What’s inside?

Grounded in understanding of what’s changing in and shaping education over the next 10 years, Laying the Foundation for Transformational Change in Education includes accessible calls to action that help you reflect, prioritize and take meaningful next steps for the future. It’s a practical guide for educators ready to:

• Remake Your Role: Pursue expansive learning that aligns with personal purpose and the changing external landscape
• Turn Down the Noise: Model and encourage transparency, critical thinking and mission focus
• Seed New Systems: Pilot vision-driven approaches and structures that can lay the groundwork for new systems for a new era.

Stories of transformational change in education often focus on grand, sweeping gestures and actions. Sometimes those moves are necessary. More often, change accumulates over time. People transform what exists into something new, brick by brick, through their daily decisions and actions.

Let’s start building change today.