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Storytelling Built to Engage Community Stakeholders
Most schools and districts have a specific communications strategy built-in to their yearly calendar; however, many of these schools and districts need to work on the storytelling they use in order to leverage communication strategies more...
Artifacts
Bronx Arena Challenge Example: Storytelling 101
This is a sample student-made rubric for a challenge on storytelling at Bronx Arena.
Strategies
Telling the Story: A Human-Centered Approach to Scaling Through Uncertainty
In a time of shrinking budgets and shifting priorities, edtech products and education programs face growing challenges when trying to scale. Storytelling offers a powerful way to bridge the gap between innovation and adoption—by centering real-world...
Strategies
Senior Portfolios
Students must complete a senior portfolio before graduation, which are designed to demonstrate students’ ability to learn on their own.
Strategies
Measuring Three Levels of Mastery
Students can pursue proficiency at three different levels, based on their prior knowledge and academic strengths and weaknesses.
Strategies
Demonstrating Mastery with Two Challenges and a Capstone
Each student is required to complete two challenges and one capstone project to demonstrate knowledge transfer and mastery of the course content.
Strategies
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.
Artifacts
IDEO Co-Designing Schools Toolkit: Phase 6 Showcase
This final phase of IDEO's Co-Designing Schools Toolkit helps teams synthesize, reflect upon, and celebrate their work. Activities include storytelling to share insights and learnings as well as tools for engaging the broader community in...
Examples From The Field
The Forest School Online
The Forest School Online is a small, independent, tuition-based virtual school connected to The Forest School in Fayetteville, GA.
Strategies
Equipping Students to Drive Community Change with AI
To develop true AI literacy, students must actively create alongside AI, rather than passively consume its outputs. DSST Public Schools civics teachers Zach Kennelly and Gianna Geraffo designed a project where students built AI-powered chatbots to...
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