{"id":2692,"date":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:21:05","slug":"change-packages-a-starting-point-for-ideas-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/change-packages-a-starting-point-for-ideas-that-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Packages: A Starting Point for Ideas that Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9f092ff3\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f749780f\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-76d64e57\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"520\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-76d64e57\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2020-Virtual-Summit.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"2020-Virtual-Summit\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2020-Virtual-Summit.png 400w, https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2020-Virtual-Summit-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This session, presented at the 2020 Summit on Improvement in Education, explains how change packages are developed and how they can be used to scale effective ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change packages are knowledge artifacts that can be developed by systems, organizations, or teams that are intentionally pursuing improvement of outcomes relevant to them and their stakeholders. 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slides from session<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Change-Package-example_Participant-Handout.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Change Package Example \u2013 Handout<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:80px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:80px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:80px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e3118763 alignfull\">\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:56px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:56px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:56px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-0130b7b6\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-15957be1 gb-headline-text\">You Might Like<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-bddfab04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-11a71804\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-11a71804\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-5555fe34 gb-query-loop-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-fa6cb64e gb-query-loop-item post-3437 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-featured\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-fa6cb64e\"><a class=\"gb-container-link\" 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