An overview of this phase's goals, activities, and desired outcomes.

Begin by looking in and out to assess team dynamics and opportunities to influence your school community.

Participants explore their identities as leaders by examining personal beliefs and values and how they shape decisions and behaviors in their leadership roles.

A creative way to physically represent your team's mindsets.

Articulate a set of working agreements to ground your group in a shared sense of how to collaborate.

Share appreciation for fellow team members to transform a team's energy and build a stronger bond.

Elevate the diverse and unique expertise of individuals on your team.

An overview of this phase's goals, activities, and desired outcomes.

Reflect on your own and others' life experiences as a group to develop an equity lens that will help you draft an authentic and specific aspiration.

Make connections between transformational learning experiences, meaningful learning, and equity.

Develop a first draft of an Equity Aspiration that articulates a vision of meaningful learning for students.

List observable behaviors aligned to each Equity Aspiration that allow participants to articulate what it would look like if their Aspiration became reality.

Support the collaborative development of a team aspiration that considers equity in voice, allowing each person to contribute to the shared vision.

An overview of this phase's goals, activities, and desired outcomes.

Develop a shared understanding about the insights from shadowing students. Use them to revisit equity aspirations and consider potential hacks to meet student needs.

An alternative to the student shadow experience. Consider interviewing or observing students identified in your equity aspiration and generate insights that can guide your design process.

Develop a shared understanding about how meaningful learning is showing up in your school. Use it to revisit equity aspirations and consider potential hacks.

An overview of this phase's goals, activities, and desired outcomes.

Get familiar with the hack process by designing solutions for everyday situations.

Practice team hacking with Mockups, a game that requires creative design solutions for fun, silly challenges.

A collection of 19 research-based practices, supported by case studies from innovative schools.

A list of nine resources you can leverage to progress toward your Equity Aspiration.

Generate a long list of hacks that are aligned to your Equity Aspiration.

School teams will decide on an Equitable Learning Practice to explore and hack towards.

An overview of this phase's goals, activities, and desired outcomes.

Forecast the impact of hacks before they happen or uncover early indicators that things are moving in the right direction.

After your team has implemented your hacks, ask students to reflect on the change. Consider unconventional measures to encourage and collect feedback.

Facilitate a discussion to reflect on the outcomes of your team's hacks. Invite individuals to share stories and encourage feedback from the group to deepen future impact.

An overview of this phase's goals, activities, and desired outcomes.

Synthesize and celebrate your team's design journey.

A structured discussion to address the question, "Where do we go from here?"

Consider a closing ceremony to recognize your team's design thinking capabilities. Refer back to the "Build Your Team" phase for an appropriate closing to the design journey.