Over more than two decades, the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College has developed and built upon its expertise in helping communities of various sizes envision, support, and implement systematic change at multiple scales. SERC provides technical and support infrastructure which enables communities to focus on their unique contributions to the collaboration. In addition, SERC's implementation, evaluation, technical, and administrative teams learn from each other and replicate lessons learned in new contexts.

• By approaching each community collaboration with a spirit of curiosity, we have been able to refine a number of key principles to enabling systemic change.
• Relationships are key: Change work requires trust, which must be built.
• There is no "they": Institutions, departments, and communities don't do things. Individuals do things as part of these entities.
• Don't go alone: Sustaining change efforts requires redundancy so that individuals can step in and out as necessary.
• Buffer against the churn: As people step in and out, you need a knowledge repository to provide stability through the turnover.
• The expertise is in the room: Bring together a diverse group of people and provide opportunities for them to share their experiences and knowledge and learn from each other.
• We know more together: Gather examples of individual perspectives and experiences then synthesize something more general that can illustrate trends and common threads.

Using examples from many projects, this poster will explore these key ideas and showcase the capacities that allow SERC to bring them to bear in collaboration with partners.