Framework for Change

A professional learning series designed to help educators and leaders expand access, foster inclusion, and improve outcomes for all students.

WHAT?

WHAT IS FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE?

The Framework for Change (FFC) is the Dudley Flood Center’s signature professional learning series designed to help educators and leaders expand access, foster inclusion, and improve outcomes for all students. Rooted in six core competencies, the FFC guides districts and schools through a multi-year process of reflection, learning, and action.

Over the course of the year, participants engage in four workshops that build upon one another:

Planning for Meaningful, Sustainable Change
Understanding Historical and Systemic Roots of Inequity
Exploring Identity and School Climate
Building Inclusive Learning Environments

SO WHAT?

MEETING THE NEED

Equity work requires more than training—it demands transformation. The FFC supports educators in uncovering local histories, examining data through an equity lens, and using frameworks such as Cultural Community Wealth and the Ladder of Inference to reframe narratives and practices.
By connecting historical understanding to current conditions, the series helps districts and schools create equitable, student-centered systems that sustain improvement over time

NOW WHAT?

PARTNER WITH US

Lasting change requires commitment, consistency, and partnership. The Framework for Change is not a one-time training or a checklist—it is a sustained collaboration designed to meet districts and schools where they are and support them as they move toward more equitable systems, practices, and outcomes.

Through a phased, multi-year partnership, the Dudley Flood Center works alongside education leaders to translate learning into action, align equity efforts across levels of the system, and build the internal capacity needed to sustain this work over time.

The Framework for Change unfolds in three phases of partnership:

Phases of Partnership

District-level professional learning focused on building shared understanding and alignment.

School-level leadership development to deepen implementation of equity-minded practices.

Coaching and technical assistance to embed the work into everyday practice at the school level.

If you are interested in partnering with the Dudley Flood Center to bring the Framework for Change to your district or community, please contact Camry Wilborn Mercer at cwilborn@ncforum.org.