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Article: Design Thinking - How to Create Your POV
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. It can sometimes...
Mastery Charter Schools: Connecting Empathy Interviews and Blended Learning
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. Themes from...
Monterey Peninsula: Connecting Empathy Interviews and School Culture
When designing change in a district, it is essential that leaders hear directly from students, families, teachers, and classified staff (i.e., those most impacted by teaching and learning); this is often done via empathy interviews. Themes from...
Activity: Define a Problem of Practice
When designing change, teams define a problem to tackle, asking “How might we?” as a way to start to imagine a more equitable, resilient future of teaching and learning.
IDEO: 7 Simple Rules of Brainstorming
When brainstorming potential solutions to a problem of practice, it is important to think outside the box. These rules from IDEO help set the stage for a successful brainstorming session.
IDEO Design Kit: Get Visual
When brainstorming potential solutions to a problem of practice, a visual brainstorming activity can more deeply tap into teams’ creativity. This guide from IDEO shares directions for “Get Visual,” a visual brainstorming activity.
Activity: Brainstorm Solutions and Refine Ideas
When designing change, teams brainstorm a wide range of potential ways to address their problem related to equity and resiliency in teaching and learning.
Match the Right Solution to Your Problem: Discussion Questions
These discussion questions accompany the Activity: Match the Right Solution to Your Problem strategy card.
Reflect on Equity in Your Solution Discussion Questions
These discussion questions accompany the Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Solution strategy card.
Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Solution
When designing change, teams should regularly pause to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and whether their planned change will lead to more equitable outcomes.
IDEO Design Kit: Storyboard
When building a prototype, it is important to get clear on what the solution looks like in practice. This exercise from IDEO helps teams define a clear prototype through the creation of a storyboard.