CHAPTER 9 - PROTOCOL 4

Systemic Disruption

TIME90 minutes plus design cycle

OWNERDistrict leadership-development design team

ARTIFACTSystem disruption design + pilot hypothesis

SUCCESS CRITERIA

The disruption targets a system condition rather than a single event.
The design connects problems of practice, learning, application, evidence, coaching, and refinement.
Leader voice, district priorities, ownership, access, and capacity are aligned.
A bounded pilot tests the theory before systemwide adoption.

IMPLEMENTATION STEPS

Define what must be disrupted

Name the entrenched pattern, evidence, consequences, and structural conditions that reproduce it.

Set the new learning promise

Describe the experience, capability, and practice-to-impact cycle the redesigned system should reliably create.

Redesign the architecture

Align time, modes, coaching, peer learning, application, evidence, technology, ownership, and support.

Form the pilot hypothesis

Specify what will be tested, with whom, for how long, and what evidence will determine the next decision.

WORKING ORGANIZER

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01Define what must be disruptedName the entrenched pattern, evidence, consequences, and structural conditions that reproduce it.What feature of the current system keeps generating weak development?02Set the new learning promiseDescribe the experience, capability, and practice-to-impact cycle the redesigned system should reliably create.What should every leader be able to experience and do?03Redesign the architectureAlign time, modes, coaching, peer learning, application, evidence, technology, ownership, and support.What structures will make continuous learning the normal way of working?04Form the pilot hypothesisSpecify what will be tested, with whom, for how long, and what evidence will determine the next decision.What small-scale test can challenge our theory before we scale it?

Evidence to bring backReturn date

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REFLECTION PROMPTS

Are we replacing an event or redesigning the learning system?
What existing requirement should be removed to make space?
How will leaders shape rather than merely receive the new model?

EQUITY GUARDRAILS

Disruption must not remove essential support, shared learning, or fair access.
Include leaders across experience, role, identity, and geography in design.
Do not use innovation language to obscure workload, cost, or accountability consequences.