Several years ago, I had the opportunity to serve as superintendent in a Kentucky district of about 1800 students. There, with a forward-thinking school board who recognized the need for a very different kind of school experience, we began to explore.

Mindset is defined as a mental attitude or inclination (Merriam-Webster). Since 2011, I've worked in education in some capacity–whether reading to kids as a volunteer, substitute teaching, running university-wide programming, directly teaching my own students, or leading as an administrator.

I write as an educator.

I write as a parent of four public school kids.

I write as an American ashamed of a place where courage can’t be found in the halls of power to protect our children.

Everything we are focused at 2Revolutions looks at the work through the prism of increasing agency and equity. I cannot think of two more important elements that should be driving all of our work in transforming learning in K12 education.  How do we, at 2Rev, work to ensure that happens? How do we, as a capacity building provider, engender ownership in our district and higher ed partners in ways that increase the probability that agency will be a core belief and an enduring outcome, ultimately manifesting itself in the learning experience?

As we work with partners who want to transform their systems, schools, and capacity, one common denominator runs as the central challenge in all of our work: managing change. In each context, our partners want drastically different outcomes for students. While our desire for education innovation drives many school transformation efforts, we believe that in order to truly unlock system transformation, we must approach the challenge of change with a new understanding and from a different perspective.