The Standard-Bearer School District Network is a national network of public school systems that use a set of 10 District Standards for developing and assessing their capacity to support building-level and classroom-level change. The leaders of these districts share the belief that the focus of any school reform effort must be on continuous improvement of the design of work provided to students. The Standard-Bearer framework provides a means to unify on-going initiatives and to bring coherence to district efforts-where the core business is providing students content-rich, engaging work every day. The theoretical basis for this network can be found in the Schlechty Center's Theory of Change (PDF, 38K).

What is the SBSD Network? (PDF, 133K)

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