2. Build

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

– Shakespeare

 
 
 

This protocol helps you translate your research to define a set of graduate aims to orient your design.

Zooming out a layer above the graduate aims, this protocol calls you to question and articulate the purpose of school in your community.

 
 

This session guide walks a group through prioritizing aims, generating ideas and selecting promising ideas to build out.

This method helps you synthesize the wide range of insights you’ve gathered into design anchors-- pithy statements that can be applied to make your design stronger and more coherent.

 
 
 
 

After you synthesize your discoveries into insights and graduate aims, it’s time to capture your own vision for school can look like. The canvas is a working “sketchbook” of your new model. Want to see some examples? Check out Citizens of the World and Van Ness.