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Leading by Convening

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Use the Leading by Convening (LbC) framework to engage stakeholders in improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.
Today’s leaders face urgent challenges with short timelines for producing positive outcomes. Effective leaders understand the need to cultivate habits that widen their area of impact across roles and levels of the system to support sustainable change.
Learn more about how to apply these essential habits — coalescing around issues, ensuring relevant participation, and doing the work together — to help achieve state goals.

Leading by Convening
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Leading by Convening Module 1: Authentic Engagement
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Leading by Convening Module 2: Coalescing Around Issues
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Leading by Convening Module 3: Ensuring Relevant Participation
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Leading by Convening Module 4: Doing the Work Together
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Leading by Convening Module 5: Reviewing and Reflecting on Engagement Over Time
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Leading by Convening: A User Guide
This user guide is primarily designed to assist facilitators in developing learning sessions that support the implementation of the principles, tools, and strategies presented in the Leading by Convening suite of modules. The guide provides suggestions for how to use the modules, how to prepare for learning sessions, and includes a module outline for each […]
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Leading by Convening: Book
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Leading by Convening: Modules & Tools
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Leading by Convening: Rubrics to Assess and Shape Practice
A rubric is a coherent set of criteria that includes descriptions of levels of performance quality on the criteria. (ASCD, 2013) In the Leading by Convening (LbC) Blueprint, rubrics describe the behavior of systems, leaders and stakeholders as they build authentic engagement. Rubrics are often said to be ‘as good as their description.’ In LbC, […]
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Learning Scenarios: Implementation Science And Leading by Convening
Case-based scenarios provide a useful approach to engaging individuals in thinking and working together to address predictable problems of practice. The scenarios included in this tool were developed by state and stakeholder leaders working together to craft a document that is true to practice situations. This activity is useful in helping state and district personnel, […]
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