TIDES VISION

TIDES is a national leader collaborating with school district shareholders to design and transform educational systems so that all learners are capable communicators, agile and flexible thinkers, team workers and solution finders ready in an ever-changing 21st century global society.

TIDES MISSION

TIDES partners with school districts to transform educational systems by engaging key decision-makers (administration, union, school board) in inquiry to design effective schools for 21st century learners.

TIDES COMMITMENT


To Accomplish TIDES’ Vision & Mission
our work is guided by the following commitments:

• Bring multiple district teams together to facilitate learning and knowledge exchange

• Create safe havens for courageous conversations among shareholders

• Identify strengths and assets as first steps in building trust and promoting transformation

• Ground the work in Effective Schools Research and draw on any current research that supports organizational and student learning

• Encourage flexible designs that are co-constructed, co-implemented and co-evaluated to increase performance and effectiveness

• Actualize the system’s vision through multiple experiments and prototypes

• Foster ongoing reflection and assessment of the team’s work

• Promote accountability through trust, transparency, shared decision-making, open engagement and reflection.

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