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Monterey Peninsula: Elevating Student, Parent, and Teacher Voice Through Empathy Interviews
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District’s redesign focused on deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. To figure out how to realize this vision, the design team planned group empathy...
Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
When designing change, teams ensure that stakeholders – students, families, teachers, and classified staff – are the primary sources of input for what change is necessary and what change might look like through direct interviewing.
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.
Austin ISD Standards-Based Grading Pilot Notetaking
As part of their pilot of grade interviews with students, Austin ISD teachers utilized a centralized notetaking space to support their collaboration on the pilot. Their team followed the Real-Time Redesign process as part of TLA's Strategy Lab.
Activity: Determine What Improvement Looks Like
Before designing a measurement plan, first think about what improvement might look like. This activity prompts you to consider what has changed, what has been improved, and how you would know.
Edtech Stack Reflection Checklist
Leaders of virtual and hybrid programs can use this checklist to audit their program’s edtech stacks. This tool is designed to produce actionable insights about where edtech products support overall virtual and hybrid program quality. Additional...
Auditing an Edtech Stack
Edtech plays a critical role in promoting the quality of virtual and hybrid learning. Leaders must capture and reflect on their edtech tools' ability to drive quality learning.
Designing a Multi-Level Theory of Change
A theory of change is a visual representation of a defined set of activities, outputs, and outcomes based on an evidence-based framework or theory. This collaborative tool helps state, system, and school communities identify not just actions and...
Scaling Small Practices Organically
How to provide the right kind of central support to enable each teacher to take the lead in driving instructional change in their classroom.
Activity: District Self-Assessment
When designing change, teams start with an in-depth analysis of the history of their school(s), what is currently working well in the district, and where the district’s primary pain points are.