School Retool Principal Fellowship

Designing a Culture of Equitable Deeper Learning Starts with School Leaders

First expand your capacity for creativity and innovation then begin to shift the culture of your school!

The School Retool Fellowship will give you the tools to develop a school wide equity aspiration, connect with your community, inspire creative confidence among your team, and design toward the deeper learning you want to see across your community.

The winter 2021 workshop sessions will be shorter ( 3 hours via zoom ) with an additional 5th session. Coaches will work with you individually and in small groups between sessions (15 hours synchronous and 15 hours asynchronous)

“School Retool creates a space for professionals to thoughtfully design educational risks.”

“School Retool is a process for creating change towards big BIG aspirations using little manageable changes. It’s like improvement/implementation science except that it is workingtowards an aspiration instead of working on a problem. I like the flip.”

“An opportunity to work with a committed group of educators to reflect on your school community and collaboratively develop aspirations and small hacks to improve the educational experience for all students and in particular those furthest from opportunity.”

“School Retool helps school leaders hack their way to redesigning changes at their school focused on equitable outcomes.”

“A community of people committed to change who are ready to take action, evaluate, refocus, and constantly move the work forward. It's inspiring.”

“Messy, exciting, challenging, inspiring, and exactly what you need right now!”

“A safe place to learn and grown and fail in the best way.”

“Create systems that do not overwhelm you that focus on the most important issues within our schools.”

“An opportunity to closely study and practice an innovative approach to equity.”

“School Retool is an excellent opportunity to think outside the box for ways to improve the educational experience for kids. Ideas don’t have to be overwhelmingly giant systemic changes, but can start small.”

“The opportunity to remove all barriers and think about possibilities for change in our building.”

“A place to collaborate and learn about design thinking, hacking, and organizational change.”

“School Retool is an immersive opportunity to dig into design thinking and work toward real change in a supportive and invigorating environment.”

“Group of like-minded professionals trying to move schools forward in powerful way.”

“More hacks, staying close to users and seek feedback from teachers and students.”

“Lots of quick wins & more hacks! Since it's my first year as the school leader, I am starting small and failing forward (for sure!)”

“We are living in a new schedule specifically because of my hack. We will re-evaluate and reflect for next year.”

“I want to create a student led event planning committee.”

“Build a secondary system where teachers from all foci can discuss and work towards hacks within our schools to better their students.”

“Utilize design thinking in addition to implementation science to create lasting change. Utilize and encourage others to utilize hacks to try new things without fear of failure. Encourage failing forward.”

“Work with a team to help students furthest from opportunity feel valued and a sense of belonging. Increase the work that our 5th grade council is doing to create a culture that contains more student voice and work with the language arts adoption team to find materials that are a good fit for our deeper learning mission.”

“Helping bring my groups initiatives to cabinet at the district level to make change.”