Learning & Improvement Offerings

This learning-by-doing program is designed to build the capacity of network organizations to improve, together. Each Lab is designed around a focus the Network has identified as relevant and important towards equitable student outcomes. Over several months, youth-serving staff and leaders engage in network gatherings, planning and testing ideas with teams from their organization, gathering data to learn what works, and regular coaching to support them in improvement cycles.

Working groups convene members with diverse perspectives and expertise to accomplish a specific goal. Outcomes of these groups may be better measures and tools for the Network, defining and addressing a barrier to success with external partners, or something else that requires collaboration.

In these one-time workshops (in-person and virtual), we break down continuous improvement into discrete tools and skills. Our goal is to strengthen practitioner and organizational improvement capacities.

Network Exchange is a network-driven space designed for leaders and practitioners to connect, share challenges, and co-create solutions. In these monthly, virtual meetings, often co-facilitated by Network members, we focus on real-time problems that Network members are experiencing to learn from each other, generate ideas, and find resources that can be applied across the Network.