Bb Ntsakey, Director, Academics at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School describes their Success Coaching program, which provides each student with a staff member who checks in daily to inquire about the student’s physical, mental, and emotional health.
PDF version of Activity: Making Sense of Empathy Interviews
PDF version of Activity: Conduct Empathy Interviews with Stakeholders
PDF version of Activity: Identity Reflection Through Noticing
A simple spreadsheet to support school and system leaders as they plan to conduct empathy interviews. See the Real-Time Redesign toolkit for more information.
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District used the empathy interview protocol as part of a board meeting.
Listening Circle Community Forum protocol from Epoch Education.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Learning Accelerator, along with Bellwether Education Partners, created a new networked learning community focused on equity and resiliency called the Strategy Lab. The nine-month, pro bono, cohort-based learning experience supported seven school systems in their reopening planning in the fall and winter of 2020 through expert support and targeted coaching before engaging in a process to make real-time, meaningful, and lasting improvements to teaching and learning.
As part of their pilot for Real-Time Redesign, one of the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District design team’s initial priorities was to orient students and teachers to their role as co-designers. The team designed a short training session in which they gave participants an overview of the liberatory design process and created space for interactive discussion, questions, and reflection. The design team also shared their vision and problem of practice (“How might we increase flexibility and personalization to build a sense of belonging and connection within the context of our labor and policy constraints?”) to prepare participants to create solutions that would build relationships and strengthen student belonging in the district.
These discussion questions accompany the Activity: Reflect on Equity in Your Pilot strategy card.
