Take out your School Design Challenge poster, post it on the wall, and fill in the following items:

• School Name in the thought bubble

• Transformation Priority Area: Write in your 3 practice priority areas

• Data Sources: Who you interviewed (e.g. one 8th grade math teacher, two 6th grade students)

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Objective 1: Share stories and testimonials from your stakeholder interviews

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Step 1: (Team) Take out your needs finding interview notes. Share your stories from your interviews,  one stakeholder group at a time: (approximately share for 15 minutes per stakeholder group)

• Students

• Parents

• Teacher

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Step 2: (Team) Everyone else should be listening for needs. If you are listening, ask follow up questions and write down needs as you hear them on individual post-its.

 

 

Objective 2: Identify needs for each stakeholder group

 

 

Step 1: (Team) After the interview notes have been presented, the team should share the needs they wrote for each stakeholder group, discuss any additional needs, and post them under "Needs and Observations" on the poster. Group common responses.

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Objective 3: Identify one or more insights gained about each stakeholder from your interviews

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Step 1: (Individual) For each stakeholder, take a step back, look at the groups of needs you listed, and reflect on any trends or surprising revelations

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Step 2: (Team) Discuss these insights as a team and post one or more of these insights on your poster under "Insights." 

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• Tip 1: An insight is simply a common theme or surprising takeaway that emerged from the needs research

• Tip 2: If you stuggle to develop insights, just put down the need that was mentioned the most by interviewees

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Objective 4: Write a design challenge for each of your practice priorities using the needs and insights you recorded

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Step 1: (Team) Pick one of your practice area priorities to focus on for your design challenge. You will come back to the others. 

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Step 2: (Team) Complete the "How might we..." sentence starter by using the needs and insights you identified: 

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"How might we help students/parents <insert need>, while also helping teachers <insert need>." 

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Step 4: (Team) Read your design challenge and reflect on how it relates to your practice priorities. If they are not aligned, think about picking a new priority areas or re-focus your design challenge. 

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Example:

• Student insight: Students want freedom to work on their own, but they need feedback on their work to keep on task

• Teacher insight: Teachers need to know if students are on task in order to feel comfortable giving them freedom

• Design Challenge Question: "How might we help students...get feedback on their work, while helping teachers... track student engagement as they work?"

 

The final Design Challenge question you create will be the focal point of your brainstorming and piloting of new practice solutions. 

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Repeat Objective 4, steps 1-2 for the other two practice areas your team selected. By the end of this exercise, you should have a design challenge for each of your practice areas (3 total).  

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Document Manager:

• Record your design challenge questions in section 1E to explain how you are focusing your work for your 3 practice priorities.