Toolkit for Partners

Adaptive Leadership is a practice for helping mobilize members of an organization or community to adapt to significant change. It emphasizes the importance of adaptation to a complex and rapidly changing environment and focuses on creating the circumstances for good leadership and
problem solving.

• Gracious Space
• SSIR Leading Change Through Adaptive Design
• Technical vs Adaptive
• Personal Thrival Plan
• Team Thrival Plan
• Practice of Adaptive Leadership

Racial Equity requires ongoing action to become more conscious of the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural forms of racism. As well as developing, testing, and implementing adaptions and interventions to dismantle the impacts of racism – reducing harm and
increasing equity.

• Tema Okun_White Supremacy Culture
• Courageous Conversations Protocol
• EP Racial History Timeline
• Ladder of Inference
• Systems Thinking Iceberg
• Mental Models Worksheet 

The Equitable Results framework provides a clear sequencing of practices from reviewing data to isolate a focus population, exploring the contributing factors, establishing relationships to deepen the adaptive understanding, to developing and testing adaptive strategies.

Collaborative Action Networks (CANs) are groupings of Eastside Pathways partners, organizations and individuals, who are committed to working together to co-develop, using the ERS framework, to see through the desired change in our community. The stakeholder composition ensures balanced perspectives and builds the trusted relationships necessary to navigate adaptive work.

• B/ART
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Community Engagement Spectrum
• Collaborative Work Cycle

Tools and resources to sustain and improve data collection and analysis

• Do No Harm Guide (Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization)
• Washington State School District Report Cards
• National Equity Atlas
• The Opportunity Index
• National Office of Civil Rights Data