The Synergy Collaboratory for Research, Practice and Transformation

协同合作实验室的研究，实践和转型建立在研究的规模和创新的扩散，以创建和发展的专业知识，以帮助项目和中心实现潜在的规模和影响的国家网络。 一个持续的思想领袖学院确定并汇总了在实现ATE计划的规模和影响方面的挑战和成功实践。 专业成长和团队发展研讨会使用基于问题的学习格式创建和实施，以研究和开发必要的能力，以帮助在ATE计划实现规模的广泛举措。 创建并实施知识管理系统，以支持获取和传播个人努力实现规模所产生的知识和专长。 开发并测试评估工具和适当的流程，以衡量在实现规模沿着从渴望到理解到实施到指导他人的连续体的各个阶段的进展情况。 形成性评价为项目提供指导，总结性评价衡量项目的成功，使创新规模化。 可持续性的定义是持续利用活动来扩大项目规模。

The Synergy Collaborative Laboratory for Research, Practice and Transformation builds on research on scale up and diffusion of innovation to create and grow a national network of expertise to help projects and centers realize potential scale and impact. An ongoing academy of thought leaders identifies and aggregates challenges and successful practices in achieving scale and impact of ATE initiatives. Professional growth and team development workshops using a problem-based learning format are created and implemented to research and develop the competencies necessary to help a broad range of initiatives in the ATE program achieve scale. A knowledge management system is created and implemented to support the capturing and disseminating of the knowledge and expertise resulting from individual efforts in achieving scale. Assessment tools and appropriate processes are developed and tested to measure progress in achieving scale along the various stages of the continuum from aspiring to understanding to implementing to coaching others. Formative evaluation provides guidance to the project and summative evaluation measures the success of projects bringing innovations to scale. Sustainability is defined in terms of the ongoing use of the activities to bring projects to scale.