Real-Time Redesign

What did you learn from empathy interviews and your self-assessment? The perspectives of your stakeholders are at the heart of thoughtful design work. In this step, you will deeply reflect on the feedback you have received about your existing model for teaching and learning and how it could work better for more students.

Reflect

As you start these activities, ask yourself:

• What did students, families, teachers, and classified staff tell us about their experiences and about what needs to change?

• What connections do we see between what our stakeholders are telling us and what we learned from other innovative schools?

• How can we clearly frame our challenge to build buy-in among others?

Implement

Complete the following activities:

Explore

Here are a few highlighted examples of equity and resiliency in action from Strategy Lab school systems that have completed the activities above. For more examples, explore the strategies themselves.

How do we find the right solution to our problem? If the problem was easy to solve, your team would likely have done so already! In this step, you will get creative by brainstorming several possibilities and then narrowing them down to one solution that is feasible and lines up best with what you heard from students, families, teachers, and classified staff.

Reflect

As you start these activities, ask yourself:

• Are our solutions outside of the status quo?

• Are we open to ideas that may seem wild or unrealistic?

• Do our solutions solve the problem that our stakeholders are describing?

Implement

Complete the following activities:

Explore

Here are a few highlighted examples of equity and resiliency in action from Strategy Lab school systems that have completed the activities above. For more examples, explore the strategies themselves.

How has equity shown up in this part of the process, and how is equity prioritized in our solution? This requires deep analysis of who has been engaged and how; it also requires an honest assessment of who is set to benefit from the proposed solution – and who might not. In this step, you will reflect on the ways that your design team has – or has not – lived out your commitment to equity in defining your solution.

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