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Take the Reflection

About the Reflection

In partnership with the Bridges Collaborative, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) developed a reflection to allow school leaders to reflect on the contextualized experiences of their efforts around desegregation and/or integration work.

The results of the reflection are intended to help public school and charter management organizations understand the factors that facilitate or hinder school desegregation and integration work in their context. AIR may use data from the self-reflection tool to continue to validate the indicators and constructs. Your personal information will be anonymous.

 

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Bridges Collaborative research team

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How to Complete This Reflection

The reflection is divided across seven cross-cutting integration constructs or topics. Section topics may be completed individually or in combination. The reflection in its entirety should take approximately 20-25 minutes to complete.

You may choose to complete this reflection in one of several ways, as:

  • an individual representative of your organization,
  • a member of an organizational group, collaborating in real-time to submit a single response, or
  • one of multiple users within the organization, completing the reflection individually to produce an aggregated response.

If you are taking this reflection as member of an organizational group, your individual response will be aggregated into your organization’s results.

Customize Your Reflection

Please view the summaries for the integration topics below. Select one, multiple, or all topics for your reflection session. Place a checkmark next to topics you want to include in your session. If you entered this session using a group code, your topics may have already been selected.

Local context refers to the specific systems, actors, and conditions within which initiatives or interventions are implemented.
Readiness refers to the motivation and collective capacity of an entity to adopt and sustain an innovation.
Resource expenditures refers to leaders strategically allocating resources such as time and funding to drive forward their goals, emphasizing alignment to ensure resources mutually reinforce their effectiveness.
Effective desegregation and integration initiatives use intentional communication strategies, from awareness building to deeper engagement, to advance their goals.
Desegregation and integration initiatives require districts and schools to collaborate with partner to generate more effective solutions and tap into expanded resources and expertise.
A structured continuous improvement process should include a regular review of the initiative vision and goals, assessment of progress toward those goals, and connected planning to scale effective practices and change or stop ineffective practices.
Sustainability measures how organizations are prepared to grow and maintain initiatives over time. Organizations that plan for sustainability think about the internal and external factors that impact how an initiative will be supported and managed over time.
Do you have a reflection code?
I got a link, and the code is pre-populated in the field below: start reflection.
If the field is blank, paste the code you received, and start reflection. Do not use a different code.
I am not part of a group: no code needed, start reflection.
I am part of a group but have no code: use code generated for you below, and start reflection.
Make sure to share the code with your group.
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