School ReTool

Leadership in a competency-based system is critical. Recognizing this, the Learning Initiative has been seeking ways to support school leaders in deepening the mindsets, knowledge, and skills and dispositions needed to effectively develop a competency-based and personalized model designed to meet the needs of all learners.

The Learning Initiative, in partnership with the Stanford d. School, offered its second cohort of School Retool, a professional  learning fellowship that helps school leaders redesign school culture using small, scrappy experiments called ‘hacks’. With our facilitators, Margaret Angell and Kippy Smith, along with NHLI’s local collaborator Jonathan Vander Els (a former principal of a competency-based school), participants learned about deeper learning, change processes, and the hack mindset, an approach to change that involves quick, small interventions and a willingness to try, fail, and learn.

Congratulations to our School Retool fellows:

Steve Krzyzanowski

John Schuttinger

Patricia Haynes, PhD

Thomas J. Ambrose

Christopher Snyder

Susan Schroeter

Adam Steel

Philip Banios

John Adams