Transformation Design
These six elements—three personal/cultural and three learning/structural—form the foundation of the Transformation Design framework.
What are the six core practices of Transformation Design?
This NGLC Consultant serves as Co-Director and is the only team member who is local to Massachusetts.
Who is Andy Calkins?
This question is used throughout this experience to address an important challenge at each school site?
What is a Brave question?
This HI5 strength is aligned to those who love exploring many interests, following new paths, and learning as many things as possible.
What is a Philomath?
This team had the longest trip to Boston?
Who is the Distinctive Schools team?
This pair of core practices—one personal/cultural, one structural—kick off the ‘Activate’ phase of Transformation Design.
What are Activate Change Agents and Activate a Shared Purpose?
This NGLC consultant once served as the Executive Director of Educational Excellence and Innovation in Vista Unified and now helps lead school transformation through her company, Leading for Transformation.
Who is Nicole Allard?
This type of prototype is meant to support your address of the Brave question, it is small in stature.
What is a little bet?
This domain is the most dominant across all Bravely participating sites (Hint: Feeling, Doing, Motivating, Thinking).
What is the Feeling domain?
This team had the shortest trip to Boston?
Who is Lowell High School?
In Transformation Design, this practice involves empowering teachers, students, families, and staff to see themselves as co-creators of change.
What is Activate Change Agents?
This consultant's bookstore-without-walls® and her company What If Schools reflect her commitment to learner-centered, culturally affirming experiences.
Who is Rebekah Shoaf?
The Bravely experience ends with this type of learning experience?
What is a learning showcase?
This strength is the most shared across teams in the 25-26 cohort and is categorized as someone who “enjoys discovering the potential in other people and supporting their personal growth.”
What is a Coach?
This team comes from the smallest state in the United States of America.
Who is Highlander Charter?
During the ‘Build’ phase, this structural practice supports districts in experimenting with shared priorities, cycles of improvement, and refining learning models.
What is Re‑Build the Learning Experience?
This NGLC Co-Director co-authored a paper on a three-pronged equity approach and helped design a mastery-based, learner-centered school serving multilingual learners.
Who is Carlos Beato?
These three overarching ideas are the foundation for Bravely: re‑envisioning success equitably, transforming learning by centering students, and modeling the vision in organizational norms
What are the three Brave Agreements?
This is a HI5 Strength in the Thinking Domain defined as someone who is “excited when asked to come up with new no-limits ideas and to connect the seemingly unconnectable” and only one Bravely participant in the entire cohort hold this as a strength.
What is a Brainstormer?
This team derives from a city known as the “City of Brotherly Love.”
Who is The Workshop School?
Found in the final ‘Embed’ phase, this core structural practice ensures systems don’t revert by realigning resources, policies, and processes to support the shared purpose.
What is Embed an Aligned Infrastructure?
This NGLC team member brings expertise in liberatory transformation design and storytelling, helping districts elevate marginalized voices while amplifying what’s possible in public education.
Who is Kristen Vogt
This tool will be used throughout the entire Bravely process to document each participating school’s experience in Bravely.
What is the learning journal?
The HI5 strengths activity done today is meant to open pathways to support the distribution of leadership, which is a practice in this Transformation Design phase.
What is Build an Inclusive Environment?
This team comes from a place where Valentine’s day cards were invented in 1847.
Who is Worcester tech?