Create the Conditions for Human Skills to Thrive

Level Up is an ongoing community of practice for district and county office leadership teams. Over a year, leaders benchmark the conditions human skills need, learn the practices that build them, and watch those conditions strengthen with AI and evidence in every round.

Level Up Supports:

A full district leadership team gathered for a Level Up session
Leaders celebrating together during a Level Up cohort session

Learn the Conditions Human Skills Need

Level Up is designed for what your district prioritizes. Leadership teams and educator PLCs learn the practices that build human skills, apply them in their own setting, and study what changes across the year.

See the Impact

District leaders working through a problem together around a laptop

The Foundation Level Up Is Built On

When leaders build these conditions for their staff, the same conditions reach students, who feel safe to try and trusted to stretch.

Humans Who Connect

  • Known & Valued: People are known and valued for their strengths and contributions, so they bring their full selves to the work and to each other.
  • Psychological Safety: People can speak honestly, ask for help, and admit mistakes without fear, so they can take the risks that learning requires.
  • Relational Trust: People can count on each other to follow through and tell the truth, so they can depend on one another to do hard things.

Humans Who Solve

  • Results-Oriented: People own outcomes and figure out how to reach them, so the work is aimed at impact, not just completion.
  • Context Over Control: People are given the why, not just the what, so they can reason through the work rather than execute someone else's plan.
  • Agency to Act: People have real authority to act on what they know, so their thinking gets tested against reality and sharpens.

Humans Who Adapt

  • Productive Risk: People can try things that might not work without being punished, so they keep experimenting instead of playing it safe.
  • Learning Agility: People have time and feedback to reflect on what happened, so each experience makes them better at the next one.
  • Proximal Growth: People work at the edge of what they can do today, so they grow and together produce what once looked impossible.
An educator team celebrating a win together during a Level Up session

Develop the Practices That Build Each Condition

Human skills grow where the conditions are built for them. Level Up teaches those conditions, so they grow in students and in the educators and leaders who shape their day.

  • Nine conditions define the environment in which human skills need to flourish, grouped into connect, solve, and adapt.
  • Each condition comes with concrete practices for leaders and educators.
  • The same conditions hold across the system, from a classroom to a leadership team to the district office.

Explore the Conditions

Use AI With Purpose to Build the Conditions

AI is changing how work gets done, and the leaders who thrive will be those whose human skills sharpen alongside it. Level Up treats AI as a thinking partner that surfaces the judgment and creative thinking already in the room.

  • Pairs every AI practice with the human skills it is meant to strengthen.
  • Puts participants in real problems where AI is a collaborator and the thinking stays theirs.
  • Builds the fluency to lead with AI while human judgment sets the direction.

See How We Use AI

Educators making sense of evidence together at a cohort table
Facilitator walking a room of district leaders through results

Measure the Growth of the Conditions

Professional learning is easy to deliver and hard to measure. Level Up is built to show the change, so a district can watch the conditions strengthen over time and know its people are developing.

  • A baseline at the start measures where each condition stands, for teams, for individual leaders, and for educators in their own practice.
  • Each team designs and tests a real move in their own setting, and walks away with the playbook and the results behind it.
  • Every participant leaves able to point to a specific change they made and what it did for the people in their setting.

See the Data

What the Learning Looks Like

Every Level Up series follows the same cycle, and participants leave with tools and resources they can immediately apply. They learn the conditions, reflect, design and test a move, and then prove what changed.

Every series opens with the Conditions Benchmark. Each leader completes a short self-assessment, and the people they lead give anonymous feedback on the same nine conditions. The report shows where conditions are already thriving and where they need attention.

Ignite Curiosity

Learn the Conditions

Participants learn the nine conditions human skills need, then read their own setting against the benchmark report. Each person names the condition that would change the most for their team or their classroom and builds a growth plan around it.

Innovate Practices

Design a Move

Each participant takes a problem of practice and designs one move to build the condition they named. A leader rethinks how they answer the first pushback in a meeting. A teacher rethinks what happens when a student risks a wrong answer. A playbook of moves gives them somewhere to start.

Iterate Ideas

Test It in the Real Setting

Between sessions, participants test the move in a leadership team or a classroom and watch what changes. The cohort reconvenes to compare what happened, with AI as a thinking partner for making sense of the evidence.

See Impact

Measure What Changed

A second Conditions Benchmark at the end of the year shows how far the conditions have moved, and participants bring evidence from their own settings alongside it. Growth in adults that usually stays invisible becomes something a district can point to.

Co-designed for Your Goals & Built Around Your Calendar

  • In-Person or Virtual Sessions
  • 60-120 minutes
  • Build for your calendar: Quarterly Leadership Meetings to Monthly PLCs

From the Classroom to the County Office

Teachers build the conditions in their classrooms; principals build them across their schools; district teams build them system-wide; and county offices build them across a region, so human skills grow at every level.

Start Building the Conditions Where Human Skills Thrive

Let's talk about what Level Up could look like for your district. In about thirty minutes, we will walk through your priorities and how a co-designed series would fit your team and your calendar.