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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...
Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
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.
Cedar Rapids: Problem of Practice on Standards-Aligned Feedback
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) interviewed a range of teachers and students to identify opportunities to improve teaching and learning. The team heard a clear and consistent theme that stakeholders felt many students are not engaged...
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.
Cedar Rapids: Brainstorming Ideas for Student Goal-Setting and Feedback
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we provide relevant, standards-aligned feedback to students so that every student reaches mastery?” In brainstorming solutions, the team...
Monterey Peninsula: Brainstorming Ideas for Flexibility, Personalization, and Student Sense of 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: 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.
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,...
Real-Time Redesign: Dream Big
Key Objectives Define a clear problem to address with your design work, based on a range of data sources, including the perspectives of students, families, teachers, and classified staff – with a special focus on those at the margins.Brainstorm a...