1. Set a high bar

• Adopt the EPIC definition of college/career ready knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
• Insist on evidence of real college and career ready standards.
• Showcase examples of student work at board meetings.

2. Start a conversation about next generation learning

• Hold a work study on Innosight's report on blended learning.
• Hold a work study on OpportunityCulture: strategies to extend the reach of effective teachers.
• Read the profiles of Next Generation Learning Models.
• Ask teachers and community members what they are excited about and what they are concerned about (here's an example of a Rhode Island conversation).

3. Take a field trip to a next generation schools

• Visit a school in the Innosight or NGLC reports.

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