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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.
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.
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.
Monterey Peninsula: Preparing Stakeholders for Co-Creation
As part of their pilot for Real-Time Redesign, one of the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District design team’s initial priorities was to orient students and teachers to their role as co-designers. The team designed a short training session in...
Real-Time Redesign: Approaches to Broader Change
Where do you go after completing the Real-Time Redesign process? We see two primary pathways for working toward more equitable, resilient teaching and learning across a school system. It is important to note these are not mutually exclusive....
Real-Time Redesign: Path Forward Planner
Regardless of the path you choose for your immediate next steps following a redesign process such as Real-Time Redesign, get specific on what the timeline and major activities look like to keep your school system moving in the direction of your...
Advice: Common Pitfalls & Tips for Success in Design Work
The design process is transformational and thrilling – but not without its challenges. Here, we surface six common pitfalls, along with potential ways to avoid these same pitfalls, captured from school systems that completed our Real-Time Redesign...
What We Learned from the Strategy Lab
In our work to support seven school systems from the Strategy Lab through the Real-Time Redesign process, we encountered three powerful takeaways about what it means to advance equity and resiliency in teaching and learning in a school system...
Real-Time Redesign - Empathy interview planner
A simple spreadsheet to support school and system leaders as they plan to conduct empathy interviews. See the Real-Time Redesign toolkit for more information.
District Leadership Gets Feedback Directly from School-Based Practitioners
Dr. Jeanette Westfall, Assistant Superintendent- Instructional Design, Liberty Public Schools, explains how she established a two-way channel between herself at the district leadership level and with coaches and teachers at the school level so that...
“Co-Creating with Our Students” presentation
This “mini-PD” training was developed by Monterey Peninsula Unified School District leaders to help teachers understand design processes and the reasoning behind pursuing co-design with students.