Session 6 of the 2026-27 CALIE Certified Educator cohort meets Wednesday, January 27 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm PT. Participants use systems thinking to examine the conditions that will help or hinder their project, identifying barriers, enabling conditions, resources, people, timelines, and the implementation realities that decide whether a good design survives contact with a school year.
- Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2027
- Time: 4:00 to 5:30 pm PT
- Location: Virtual (live meeting for enrolled participants)
- Applications: Applications for the 2026-27 cohort close October 14, 2026
- Cost: $2,000 program fee, payable in 1, 2, or 4 installments
- Applying: Free, and nothing is due when you apply
Schools and districts are systems with their own calendars, approval paths, budgets, and habits. A project that ignores them tends to get filed under someday. This session gives participants a way to see their system clearly, find the levers they can reach, and plan around the ones they cannot.
In this session you will:
- Map the system your project lives in, including who decides what
- Separate barriers you can remove from constraints you must design around
- Identify enabling conditions and the people who control them
- Build a timeline that respects testing windows, breaks, and workload
Participants leave with a systems map for their capstone that shapes the evidence work in Session 7 and the implementation plan in Session 8.