CLG On Site

Since its inception, CLG has engaged in multi-year, ongoing collaborations with select district leadership teams to support their specific improvement efforts. The aim of these collaborations is to help district leadership teams work in new ways to significantly improve all students’ learning.

Through a series of site visits, meetings in Cambridge and regular communication, members of CLG and school leaders develop a change curriculum that is guided by the CLG framework and the unique challenges within the district context.


Select components of the CLG change curriculum include the ability to:

• Diagnose and act upon the multiple contributing factors of organizational problems.
  
• Link and align a theory of action with a deep understanding of organizational problems the change is aimed to improve.
  
• Disrupt atomization and isolation in the system—among teachers, staff, and leaders—and work to build collaboration and collective problem solving.
  
• Generate and maintain urgency and engagement of adults in the change process.
  
• Surface and diagnose the systemic nature of individual and group-level “immunities to change.”
  
• Model and foster constructive working relationships by promoting honesty, transparency and trust.

Over the last several years, we have worked with school leadership teams in West Clermont, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Corning, New York; Houston, Texas and Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Over the last several years, CLG has focused its work in supporting Leadership Practice Communities in Hawaii. For an inside look at CLG’s work with district leaders, click here to learn about how school administrators in Hawaii are approaching the leadership challenge of improving student achievement.