Redesigning for Belonging: Three Years of the District Redesign Network
Six districts. Sixty-six leaders. An estimated 70,000 students. Over three years, the National Equity Project's District Redesign Network (DRN) tested a premise: that equity-centered systems transformation is possible when districts treat equity as core to their system's design — and when the leaders doing that work are not doing it alone.
What Changed
Systems transformation rarely shows up as one clean metric in year three. But year-end evaluations and network-wide assessment data gave coaches and district teams something more concrete than anecdote: measurable signals that the conditions for lasting change were shifting.
Across the network, coaches consistently saw
Stories from the Field
Systems change looks different depending on where you stand. These moments show what redesign looked like in practice.
