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Network Hub Meeting Routines

A network hub has numerous responsibilities, including enabling network learning, supporting site teams, and communicating with constituents. Managing the hub’s work and routines requires thoughtful planning. Aligned rhythms of meeting and communication can be vital to support progress and effective decision making.

This organizer is a tool to help network leaders and those preparing to launch a networked improvement community to think through how a hub team accomplishes the different functions for which it is responsible. It identifies the purpose of each meeting structure, frequency, attendees, the meeting organizer, and standing agenda structures.

Watch this brief video, part of the “Developing Hub Capability to Organize, Lead, and Learn” session recorded for the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education, for an introduction to the tool as well as an example of how the Network to Transform Teaching (NT3) hub team used this tool in its work.

Make a copy of the Hub Meeting Routines Worksheet


The meeting organizer is grounded in network hub leadership responsibilities described in a linkage of processes. For a more complete introduction to these responsibilities and the linkage of processes, visit Hub Leadership Capabilities and watch the full

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