Make Your School Irresistible: Prioritize People to Solve School Challenges

Outline

Welcome activity
10 min: Building community activity - Meet My Colleague. Partners learn about each other and prepare how to introduce the other person to a new group. Then partnerships pair up to make quads and do introducations. Repeat with quads into groups of 8.
5 min: Who’s Who in the Room. Celebrate the various roles of the people in the room such as school leader, district leader, teacher leader, etc.

Participants work through design thinking process with graphic organizer
10 min - empathize, broaden perspective
5 min - define
5 min - outcome -(vision casting)
5 min - ideate
5 min - prototype
5 min - feedback

30 min: Implementation science steps to build a team and take action with discussion among participants

5 min: closure

Supporting research

Make Your School Irresistible: The Secret to Attracting and Retaining Great Teachers (ASCD book co-authored by Carrie Bishop and Jessica Holloway)
Why Design Thinking Works (Harvard Business Review article)
Blase, K. A., Fixsen, D. L., Sims, B. J., & Ward, C. S. (2015). Implementation science: Changing hearts, minds, behavior, and systems to improve educational outcomes. Oakland, CA: The Wing Institute.