March 5, 2021

A new set of articles in the Social Innovations Journal, an online journal for practitioners. The first five articles of this special issue examine how netweavers can build and maintain the enabling conditions for productivity, commitment, creativity, and purpose in a time of disruption. These papers emerged from a three-year partnership with some of the world’s most highly experienced and effective netweavers. The core of these articles are the words of the netweavers themselves, organized and accompanied with enough commentary to make them coherent and cohesive.

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The report contains insights from 4 leading experts in network facilitation, systems change, and STEM education reform, and addresses how to maintain connectivity to enhance the transformative potential of networks and how to enhance and assess transformative capacity.

The Network of Stem Education Centers (NSEC) is an organization of campus-based STEM centers and offices that serves as a catalyst for broader national educational transformation in STEM, including research on teaching and learning STEM disciplines at all levels. NSEC is working with other STEM Networks to enhance our collective capacity by identifying effective network design and facilitation strategies.

In 2018 we recruited a core group of experienced transformative netweavers who were eager to enhance their network’s transformative potential. We convened eight 90-minute guided conversations to share ideas about how to design, create and facilitate transformative learning networks.