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What is a Smart Education System?
Smart education systems create and sustain networks of services provided by schools, city agencies, community organizations, cultural institutions, and businesses to promote high-quality student learning and development wherever it occurs — at school, at home, and in the community.
To be “smart,” the resulting system is nimble, adaptive, and efficient. It provides a range of supports to young people and families, depending on their needs.
A smart system requires partnerships among the school district, other city agencies, cultural institutions, community groups, and businesses. This kind of network — what we call a smart education system — aims to enable all a district's students to move from basic to proficient and beyond.
No school community in the country has, so far, completely realized this vision of a smart education system, but many urban communities have begun to build components. > See examples
Currently, we describe a smart system as one that:
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maintains multiple and substantial cross-sector partnerships to provide a broad range of services to young people and their families, depending on their needs
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aims to achieve a broad set of positive outcomes — including, but not limited to academic achievement — for students, families, and communities, and gathers evidence of progress
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puts students, families, and communities at the center of the work
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shares accountability across the system
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has a systematic approach for bringing the work to scale
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has strategies for managing power differentials, for example by creating meaningful roles for all stakeholders and shifting partner relations away from the standard grassroots-grasstops tensions
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