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EVERY WORD - EVENT THEN CONJUNCTIONS FROM LYRIC AND SASKIA!!! 

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EVERY WORD - EVENT THEN CONJUNCTIONS FROM LYRIC AND SASKIA!!! 

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Lyric and Saskia's session allowed us to start to wrestle with how to help assess readiness for restorative conversations with our school partners and how that impacts our work. I'm grateful for their openness and vulnerability.

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There is incredible work happening on the RevX team. I was so excited to hear about the bi-directional feedback given by learners and facilitators. I also appreciate the vulnerability Saskia and Lyric shared during the Mundo Verde conversation. Definitely could have spent more time listening and learning and thinking about implications for partnership (RW)

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if a school/LEA can be a hub for more enrichment experiences - does it first have to figure out some efficiencies in how time is used? like a hybrid homeschool model etc? how did this show up in your learning if it did?

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So much brilliance, authenticity and clarity around the work. Excited about the student leaps survey - potential to really push how schools are evaluating themselves (the metric of student experience is new for many) and humbled by the challenges I heard from Saskia and Lyric .... Appreciated their openness and what they brought forward.

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So much brilliance, authenticity and clarity around the work. Excited about the student leaps survey - potential to really push how schools are evaluating themselves (the metric of student experience is new for many) and humbled by the challenges I heard from Saskia and Lyric .... Appreciated their openness and what they brought forward.

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Mundo Verde – our project leads are humans too!

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Mundo Verde – our project leads are humans too!

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Saskia and Lyric did an amazing job of storytelling how they experienced an environment where the conditions for the work undermined the supposed aspirations of the design. Thinking about how we support our team members doing what can be deeply triggering work while also pushing toward our aspiration of reaching all 130K school communities.

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So much student voice! Authentic! Valued!

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So much student voice! Authentic! Valued!

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Learning from a project that we decided not continue working with is a well of richness I haven't gotten to dig into yet and I feel like there is much to learn about potential limitations to current methods and tools from these moments. Much to celebrate about learning from these decisions.

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Both sessions I was in (Student Leaps survey, Valor) centered student voices— asking them directly what’s working, what’s not, how to improve school… this is IT. We should do this in all projects and support building conditions where leaders HEAR this and act on it.

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Engaging students' brains and hearts in authentic ways. I'm sure this was an awesome way to maximize Relevance, Active Self-Direction, and other Leaps in their experiences, even though we didn't even talk about it from that angle!

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Models Exchange call was SO helpful — huge s/o to Saya and Cynthia who have done so much work learning and evolving the way we think about this, and shared such a comprehensive overview of how the Exchange fits into the NDP and its other components (TDC, etc.) I feel like I understand it so much better now. Thank you!

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The small student survey/feedback thing kind of blew my mind. Such a smart way of including student voice throughout a design/change process. It was so cool to hear the teacher reflecting on the impact of the bi-directional nature (we are all getting better) of the experience

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We are actively trying to get students' voices heard and bring their responses in to bring direct action to better their experiences

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I loved these. I wonder if we could do 2 Monday calls in this zone in June and 2 in December/January? Or sprinkle these so that the last session of each quarter is 3-6 breakouts like this? I like the idea of keeping the learning going throughout the year, it really connects (me personally) to the work, and heightens understanding of work across the board at Transcend. I say this without knowing the lift of prep from folks, but this is my wondering? (ER)

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How to build materials that provide supportive structure for adults, but also that give them freedom and agency. Love the mirroring of adult agency with student agency in this. (KD)

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Impactfulness of Leaps survey for conditions building

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Impactfulness of Leaps survey for conditions building

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I truly believe we have some of the most transformational work going on right now and it makes me almost giddy thinking about what this means for kids and their lives and their futures. S/O RevX!!!

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Impact of the leaps survey + highlighting student voice!

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The RevX experiences are so exciting and inspiring! Just awed by what they are doing and how they are synthesizing their approach and learning. -AB

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In awe of you!!! So much goodness and wisdom from you (and you weren't even talking about the magic that you bring to the WCC team). Thanks for your thoughtfulness about both RevX and Mundo Verde.

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Wow! First, the student agency and development with RevX and then the deep reflection and centering of the adult work necessary to engage in liberatory design...I am FULL and so reflective of how I can capture and keep these learnings as I dig deeper into my current projects. (DV)

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Loved the aspect of choice, and the ability to see across so many different parts of the work happening at Transcend (RLL)

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Loved the aspect of choice, and the ability to see across so many different parts of the work happening at Transcend (RLL)

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Openness from Lyric and Saskia + Leaps Survey!  So much brilliance here!

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Openness from Lyric and Saskia + Leaps Survey!  So much brilliance here!

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How do we measure readiness for partnership?

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How do we measure readiness for partnership?

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How do we build conditions in advance of launching a design journey? 

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How do we build conditions in advance of launching a design journey? 

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So cool to hear how Valor student input is being used in mutliple ways to validate/improve the Circle work (love how even the students not selected for specific research opps were able to make meaningful contributions as validators)

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More learning from each other with what didn't work

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More learning from each other with what didn't work

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It's wonderful to learn from the projects that were huge wins, but also refreshing and equally as helpful to learn where things didn't go as planned. I really appreciated hearing from Lyric & Saskia about their project! Thank you for keeping it real!

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We do project spotlights in emails. I wonder if there is a way to do them like this sprinkled throughout the year instead. Maybe once a month? I don't feel strongly because this also worked well.

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I appreciated Ross' enumeration of three reasons for building an evidence base for Valor: attract funders, build demand among communities, and our own learning and continuous improvement

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Both sessions were helpful for my work as a design partner. 

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Both sessions were helpful for my work as a design partner. 

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The vulnerability and transparency from Saskia and Lyric. That was a lot and I applaud them for their work and tenacity. 

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The vulnerability and transparency from Saskia and Lyric. That was a lot and I applaud them for their work and tenacity. 

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It was great to see how much we listen to students

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It was great to see how much we listen to students

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I was in the group for the leaps and it was cool knowing we took in outside contractors to help with putting together a survey that accurately conveyed each of the 10 leaps in an easily understood way. Also the valor circle survey was really impactful that students were able to lobby complaints with it that are being worked on fixing right now.

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Hearing from a variety of projects and seeing our work in each of them. Wondering how we could structure something like this more frequently because it's the key to our growth!

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Loved the option of choice. Would love to have a similar format monthly (I love learning what is going on on other projects).

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How will the incredible learnings we've gleaned from the VELA project impact our Design Lab, NDP, and other Strategic Change projects?

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Both breakout groups I went to did a wonderful job of utilizing data (leaps) or listening intently (Lyric/Saskia) to be intentional about the moves they made and how the design journey did, or didn't, look.

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We have a lot of brilliant people doing work they are passionate about, and that's always such a source of inspiration & creative energy.

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Thank you Saskia and Lyric for being vulnerable.   Your session helped me think more about our work in Texas.

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Thank you Saskia and Lyric for being vulnerable.   Your session helped me think more about our work in Texas.

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Today's sessions pushed both my understanding of the work, as well as deep reflection on where I personally need to think and improve.

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In addition to the incredible content shared by folks, I love seeing the different ways folks create space for learning and sharing. I have a deeper understanding of how important shared problem/ challenge definition is.

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How are we going to "scale" conditions building?

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How are we going to "scale" conditions building?

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Our strategy takes as a given we can't directly serve all 130K communities – and I don't think it's incompatible with our DEIJ goals to "deploy" the precious resource of our School Design Lab where there are promising conditions. If we need to do conditions-building even in those projects...I'm assuming pretty much every school has real condition-building work to do. How do we scale what seems like it's deeply human, adaptive, relational, and skilled work?

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We are really leaning hard into perpetual beta— sure, we’ve always had Empathy Interviews but now we’re trying so many other tools to really ensure we’re empowering students’ voices in the design work!

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I really liked the deep dive into work of our teams. I learned SO much about what teams are focused on and what the projects on the horizon are. I would love to have not had to choose (although appreciated that recordings can be listened to later)

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This work is so deeply human. It takes all sorts of capacity (emotional & content expertise) how can we make sure people have the spaciousness to move from the current state to a better state? (RW)

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The student leaps survey as a tool was AWESOME and so was the presentation! Thank you for sharing about it in a way that was both comprehensive and concise. Awesome job!!!!

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Loved the focus on just one thing from various projects. 

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Loved the focus on just one thing from various projects. 

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The Learning Fair idea was really resonate with me from an adult learning perspective. Choice, deep dives, and opportunity to ask questions/explore resources. Next time, I wonder if we could split these across different months (maybe once in June and once in Dec/Jan) so we have more time to digest the material. Would be awesome to have some time in portfolios to synthesize what we learned and how we think it could apply to our projects

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I had a vague awareness of this partnership, but had no idea about the breadth of the work involved and how much student brainpower is being leveraged to assess and improve the model

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Rev X - we need to develop "emergent" tools/processes that give the adults/users structure but allow them to adjust based on what students are experiencing
MV - Before we go deeper into engagements with partners, we need to norm on "problem definition" and be sure that we have a current understanding of any "pre-existing conditions" that need to be developed/addressed to make sure the space is conducive to the desired outcomes (DV)

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How can we best receive student feedback and take action before issues arise. Is there a need for an anonymous feedback link throughout projects so we can catch problems and complaints earlier

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The whole concept of the student research team! Game changer right there!

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How do we measure readiness in a partnership? Also how do we push back on what constitutes as expertise (if there is a narrow definition).

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Would be cool to see a list of shifts they are intentionally designing for and organically seeing in the relationship between students and teachers. -Anirban

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We have a nut to crack as an organization - what does it look like to work with schools with less than ideal conditions for innovation AND liberatory conditions?

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Hearing about out-of-school options and how we are supporting the thinking around that work was inspiring. I knew nothing about VELA but chose it because I knew nothing and l'm excited to learn and do more.

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The redesign work is super nuanced and complex.  And, it requires something different from each coach/partner.  Whether it's tied to redesign or to their design/liberatory conditions.  We'll just need to determine how we work with schools that have complexity that may impede doing the work in an innovative/liberatory way.

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Just having the opportunity to learn from a piece of each project both affirmed the variety of work being done in our org, the ways different Transcenders responded to choice points, sparked conversations that would have been missed otherwise. I know that the answer is always that more time would help, and I am torn because I don't know if it is more time here learning more about the projects as much as answering what will I do with what I've learned?

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Learning about the projects illuminated so much of the great work we do (that I didn't know about!) and highlighted overlaps with my own work that I want to pursue. 

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Learning about the projects illuminated so much of the great work we do (that I didn't know about!) and highlighted overlaps with my own work that I want to pursue. 

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I was moved by Saskia's reflection and vulnerability in saying: while i have a lived experience that relates to this partner's need, i don't have content expertise on that. And then being able to tap Lyric who does have that expertise. How can we think about staffing projects in flexible ways like this, that match the needs of the school with expertise our teammates have? (KD)

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Love that Valor intentionally brought in students who loved Circle, as well as those who did NOT. So wise!

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inspired by the way that RevX brings student feedback into the process. How might we bring in ongoing family and community feedback into our partner's design journeys?

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One key takeaway--the bidirectionality of feedback is a change maker for student + adult practice. We are all learners.

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I'm glad I got to actively participate in the June learnings as a new hire because I had opportunities to ask questions. I think reviewing the recordings for these will be a great way to help onboarding in the future

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having a monthly + voice over spotlight would be excellent and adds color over reading only

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LOVE these but when am I going to watch all of them?!

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LOVE these but when am I going to watch all of them?!

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Did I make up the possibility that we'd take a month off Monday calls so we could catch up?

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Twenty minutes in-person with a chance to ask questions is PERFECT. Reading blurbs doesn't bring the project to life like hearing from our folks about it!

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This series allows us to see how we are actually doing the work as practitioners and builds the fabric of our organization- the trust and connections between all of us. No suggestions for improvement yet, I'll share as they emerge.