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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.
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...
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.
Cedar Rapids: Student Reflection and Goal-Setting Pilot
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) wanted to solve a problem in their district: “How might we provide relevant, standards-aligned feedback to students so that every student reaches mastery?” After seeking stakeholder input and...
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...
Monterey Peninsula: Students and Teachers Co-Design Process Pilot
Monterey Peninsula wanted to solve a 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 constraints?” After seeking stakeholder...
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 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...