The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) leveraged the U.S. Department of Education's Rethink K-12 Education Models grant to provide significant funding to districts to support innovative solutions to persistent problems of practice--particularly those heightened by the pandemic. MDOE's grant began in fall 2020. It prioritized innovations focused on outdoor education, multiple flexible educational pathways, extended learning opportunities, and online learning. The Region 1 Comprehensive Center (R1CC) has supported MDOE since the beginning of the project, serving as a thought partner on the grant proposal, co-developing resources to support grant implementation, and developing professional development trainings on grant-related topics. This brief is a review how the grant was administered in Maine.