Innovative Insights

Briefs

These Briefs are part of a body of work elevating promising practices and lessons learned from the field. Each Brief offers a real-word, point-in-time look at a specific condition, event, or process--capturing both successes and challenges to inform and inspire other schools. Written primarily for school staff and board members, Briefs also aim to serve districts, policymakers, sponsors, and others working to strengthen public education. 

• Innovation Insights Brief: Balancing Innovation and Structure: how one school balances innovation with systems, data, and instructional coherence while supporting individualized student interventions. (Gateway Science Academy)
• Innovation Insights Briefs: One Mission, Two Organizations: aligning two interconnected organizations through shared system, accountability, and operational clarity.  (Guadalupe Centers Schools)
• Innovation Insights: Hard Decisions, Stronger Schools: making difficult, data-driven decisions to preserve long-term organizational health and student outcomes (Momentum Academy) 
• Innovation Insights Briefs: Engineering Excellence: building sustainable instructional systems that create consistency while empowering teachers (Frontier Schools)
• Innovation Insights Briefs Reset for Results: how two bold leaders reimagined transformation (Brookside Charter School and KIPP:KC)

Webinar

• Innovative Insights Webinar: Hard Decisions & Bold Transformation:  Featuring Leaders from Momentum Academy (Hard Decisions, Stronger Schools), Brookside Charter School and KIPP:KC (Reset for Results) 

Guide

• Charter School Innovation Insights Production Guide

General Information

• Charter Glossary
• Share a Compliment or Concern about a MCPSC School