The Work Of Ecosystem Enablers: Spreading Innovation In K12 Education

There are over 132,000 schools in the United States, and most of them continue to operate as they did 150 years ago. While many experts are increasingly vocal about the mismatch between our prevalent sit-and-get, industrialized model of schooling, and the agile, dynamic skills the global digital economy is hungry for, only a small percentage of schools have embraced the core institutional redesign needed to enable graduates to thrive in this changing world. Why is this the case and how might we accelerate the process? Education in the United States is profoundly local: 88% of all school districts have 10 or fewer schools, and  community aspirations, working conditions and accountability measures are defined locally.