School Design Toolkit

Discover

We’ll begin by grounding ourselves in the histories and aspirations of our students. We use those to define why we must innovate and what outcomes we must innovate toward. We seek inspiration to spark ideas for what’s possible.

 

CONVENING 1: October 7-8, 2019

At our first convening, we’ll help you synthesize your discovery work and jumpstart the build phase. We’ll explore future trends that will help us forecast the direction schools are moving, seek inspiration across the city, ground our work in equity and craft insights to help capture your biggest takeaways.

By the end of the convening, you will have honed your case for change, drafted your unique vision for the purpose of school, created graduate aims for your students and leveraged collaborative work time to build a plan to move you work forward. 

Convening 1: Agenda

Next Steps

During Convening 2, we will build a signature student experience aligned to your graduate aims that you will test out with your students in the spring. In order to best prepare for the next convening, you will need to sharpen the Discover + Build sections of your canvas. The methods below will help your design team iterate on your current draft of the canvas.

Prepare for your Journey

Build your team
Define your goals
Explore your identity + Design

Discover More

Conduct empathy interviews
Shadow a student
Seek inspiration
Explore the future
Case for change

Graduate Aims

Generate Grad Aims
Select and refine grad aims

Example Canvases

Edgecombe County Public Schools
Citizens of the World Charter School