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Smart Districts
VUE Number 5, Fall 2004
 An interview with Marla Ucelli: Audio Clip 2
What challenges do districts face in transforming themselves in this way?
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TRANSCRIPT:
Yes, a smart district doesn't have to look like districts as we know them. And, in fact, it may be that the smartest thing to do may be to have a very different configuration then we are used to. In fact, we use a term called local education support system that really conveys that the idea is to provide the kinds of supports, interventions, professional development opportunities, data-informed decision making — all the things that we know that schools need to be successful. And we have, indeed, more than twenty years of really solid research on what schools need to be successful. So to create that kind of environment might require, for example, breaking up a large district into much smaller units. We might think of it in terms of networks of schools that are joined by a geographic location, or a particular teaching style, or a particular curricular interest. And we might think of it as a more traditional district actually managing several portfolios of schools, each one of which might, in turn, be managed by a community organization, a private entity, even a for-profit organization.
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