About About the Initiative The Power of We Ecosystems often do what no one partner can do alone. Since 2015, the STEM Learning Ecosystems Initiative has cultivated and supported local, […]
Collective impact is a multi-sector/multi-agency, collaborative leadership approach to large scale social change in communities that is usually place based (i.e., it is focused on a particular town…
Within this toolkit, you can find a detailed list of Collective Impact tools, articles, webinars, videos, and resources curated by Tamarack Institute for member communities and key partners.
(Open Access) Interconnectedness in Education Systems (2022)
Underlying complex systems, there is a rich web of interconnected components that determine the relational properties of the system. Yet, traditional methods used in education sciences often disregard the underlying complexity of the educational system and, consequently, its emergence phenomena.
Multi-Loop Social Learning for Sustainable Land and Water Governance: Towards a Research Agenda on the Potential of Virtual Learning Platforms - ScienceDirect
Managing social-ecological systems and human well being in a sustainable way requires knowledge of these systems in their full complexity. Multi-loop …
Put the Load Right On Me: Distributed Leadership in Schools
Presented by Ann PerssonWith an impending teacher shortage and veterans leaving the classroom at unprecedented rates, keeping our educators in the classroom ...
Stronger Together: Building Distributed Leadership
The complex issues of our time are too much for any one leader to handle alone. Hal Gregersen and Deborah Ancona, who head the MIT Leadership Center, explore...
Ever heard of distributed leadership? If not, you must know about it now. Read the article to know about distributed leadership and its benefits in detail.
Webinar: Leveraging Collective Impact to Support STEM Programs and Resources
Too often programs that serve girls in STEM are limited in service and impact due to size, location, funding, expertise, and equipment. In other cases, proj...
Putting the collective impact of global development research into perspective – What we learned from six years of the Impact Initiative
Reductions to UK aid have highlighted the need to understand both how international development research has, and can continue to, effect positive change. Here, Pauline Rose and Elizabeth Tofaris r…
Towards Resilience: Advancing Collective Impact in Protracted Crises
Mercy Corps calls for a radical departure to achieve better outcomes in states plagued by conflict-driven crises, offering a unifying framework to galvanize investments towards sources of resilience.
A well-designed course should include a series of learning experiences – leveraging different modalities - that allow the learning process to extend across time, provide students opportunities to engage in a variety of diverse activities, and scaffolding to achieve learning objectives. Engaging in …
II. Embrace Complexity | Conversational Leadership
I. Take Responsibility III. Practice Leadership Embrace complexity: The world and how we live and work together are becoming increasingly interconnected and massively more complex. Complex problems have unique characteristics that make them impossible to solve in our old ways. We need to understand complexity better, how the world really works and how we can …