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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.
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Cedar Rapids: Getting Inspired by Standards-Based Grading
Cedar Rapids Community School District has a well-defined strategy for implementing competency-based learning. Amid implementation, however, they ran into challenges getting standards-based grading (a key part of their model) to really “stick” in...
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Process
When designing change, teams regularly pause and reflect on how equity is embedded in their change processes.
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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.
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Plan to Pilot Your Prototype
This template provides design teams with space to clearly define the parameters of a pilot plan (or small test) – including the format, who will interact with the pilot, what messaging and resources are required, and what measures will determine...
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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.
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Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot
When designing change, teams regularly step back to reflect on whether equity has been embedded in their process and to validate whether the planned change leads to more equitable results, especially before scaling any planned change.
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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...
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Financial Planning in the Time of COVID-19
Three concrete tools, contextualized in case studies that leaders can use as they finish the 2020-21 school year and begin financial planning for the 2021-22 school year for school systems and CMOs.
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Daily Student Success Coaching
As a part of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School’s Success Coaching, students receive daily, one-on-one check-ins from staff members who inquire about physical, mental, and emotional health. Every student receives a success coach who connects with...
