At Education Elements, we’re really lucky to support the design and implementation of blended and personalized learning across more than 700 schools and districts around the country. In this work, we’re often asked, “How do we set up teams to build our internal capacity and support the implementation, scale, and deepening of blended and personalized learning?”
We usually start by recommending that districts think about how to set up a layered support structure to create distributed leadership and a feedback loop between school and district teams. As pictured below, we think that most districts need to establish a core Project Team (typically 1-3 people) to drive the work forward day-to-day; a heterogeneous District Council (typically 10-12 people) to set strategy, provide diverse perspectives, and serve as a core decision-making body; and a School Personalized Learning (PL) Leadership Team (typically 4-6 people) at each school site to distribute leadership across the principal, coaches, and teachers, and lead the design and implementation of blended- and personalized-learning models.
This article originally appeared on the Blended Learning Universe blog. Access the whole article here.