How We Partner

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Meaningful modernization requires more than a plan. It requires leaders who share a common understanding of the work ahead, the organizational capability to sustain it, and the coordinated expertise needed to keep progress moving over time.

The Accelerator serves as a long-term modernization partner, working alongside your leaders and existing partners to provide the experience, coordination, continuity, and dedicated implementation capacity needed to accelerate progress while helping your community build the capability to steward and continuously modernize its operating system.

Throughout every stage of the journey, the Accelerator is available to help communities build the shared understanding and transformation narrative needed to foster trust, align stakeholders, and sustain momentum.

Cultivate Shared Understanding

We help the community develop a shared understanding of how its operating system functions and where it is limiting the community's ability to achieve its aspirations for students and the adults who support them.

Build Collective Commitment

We help communities build the shared commitment to function as a coherent operating system. We work to build a dedicated constituency across stakeholder groups. This enables lasting change, even in the face of leadership turnover, budget reductions, and shifting priorities.

Create the Modernization Roadmap

We work with the community to develop a long-term modernization roadmap that prioritizes immediate action while building toward the longer term vision. With every milestone, we help you begin developing the habits, decision-making practices, and organizational capability needed to sustain progress over time.

Strengthen Collective Operating Capability

We partner with communities over multiple years to guide, coach, advise, integrate, and design the work of modernization. As the operating system evolves, we help leaders develop the mindset, habits, practices, and collective capability needed to function as a coherent operating system. We also work alongside other partners to ensure their efforts reinforce rather than compete with one another.

Evolve the Partnership