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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.
Monterey Peninsula: Students and Teachers Co-Designing Strategies for Belonging
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we increase flexibility and personalization to build a sense of belonging and connection within the context of our labor and policy...
Activity: Match the Right Solution to Your Problem
When designing change, teams select solutions that reflect the needs and priorities of students, families, teachers, and classified staff.
Real-Time Redesign: Introduction
Why This Toolkit Exists School and system leaders undoubtedly want to remove barriers to equity, but it can often feel difficult to find the right time to make these changes. However, we believe that school and system leaders can make meaningful,...
Activity: Visualize and Build a Prototype
When designing change, teams make sense of input and feedback from students, families, teachers, and classified staff to identify what changes are needed and what those changes might look like.
Mastery Charter Schools: Blended, Culturally Responsive Teaching Pilot
Mastery Charter Schools wanted to solve a problem in their network: “How might we build a blended learning model that fosters achievement and independence in our high school students?” After seeking stakeholder input and brainstorming a range of...
Activity: Plan and Run a Pilot
When designing change, teams pilot their prototypes to assess strengths and weaknesses of a solution before implementing the solution across the district.
Activity: Reflect on the Pilot
When designing change, teams use data from a pilot in order to determine whether the planned change should be scaled.
Activity: Pilot Next Steps - Ditch, Iterate, or Scale
When designing change, teams reflect on their pilots and choose appropriate next steps that reflect the needs and priorities of students, families, teachers, and classified staff.
Using Jamboard to Brainstorm, Share, and Support Ideas
One way to use Jamboard effectively is to enable users to brainstorm, share, and support ideas as seen on this screenshot. In order to do this, you should first have participants populate various sticky notes (you can even color code by participant...
Using Jamboard to Bucket Ideas
One way to use Jamboard to take collaborative conversations deeper after brainstorming ideas is to take those ideas and bucket them based on topic, commonalities, themes, or other relevant categories. The act of “bucketing” can be done virtually by...