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What we offer

Community Design Partners offers workshops, design sprints, and comprehensive improvement initiatives to support your Student-Powered Improvement journey.

Unlock the potential of Student-Powered Improvement with tailored workshops to build skills and capacity among adults and youth. Our workshops are customized, engaging, and focused on implementation, not theory.

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Design sprints

Transform challenges into innovative solutions with a Student-Powered design sprint for teams to explore problems, iterate solutions, and create actionable solutions.

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Comprehensive improvement initiatives

Build a collaborative culture to deeply understand persistent problems and elevate research-based solutions through long-term, student-powered improvement projects.

SPI worskhops are great for...

Schools starting to explore the power of student voice and need foundational knowledge and capacity
Educators looking to deepen the impact of their existing student voice efforts
Schools, districts, and organizations of all sizes and budget levels

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Design sprints are great for...

Educators looking to integrate student voice into their teaching
Innovators seeking fresh approaches to problem-solving
Community leaders aiming to address local challenges with equity-driven solutions
Forward-thinking teams enthusiastic about collaborative problem-solving to drive impactful change

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Comprehensive improvement initiatives are great for...

School districts seeking to make systemic improvements across multiple schools
Higher education institutions committed to including students when tackling complex challenges
Educational nonprofits or intermediaries focused on driving impactful changes through student partnerships
Community organizations aiming to address broader community challenges with student involvement

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Personalized and flexible approach

Meet your unique goals with customized activities, timelines, and in-person or virtual sessions.

Expert and proven guidance

Get deeply researched, field tested practices and coaching from our experienced facilitators and advisors.

Diverse and inclusive environment

Use a collaborative process that protects and promotes equitable empowerment for students and educators.

Sustainable and scalable impact

Design long-term, systemic improvements built for your budget and capacity.

To a professional, our people were energized and brought into the processes you facilitated. They were prepared and motivated to expand attention on their root cause analysis, community engagement and short-term wins.

District leader

Design camp was a safe space where student's voices were heard and represented and it was fun to feel a part of something bigger than just myself.

High school student

The work that Community Design Partners does is extremely underrated. Most often people refer to this work as "soft work" or work that is focused on "feelings" . The work that you all do, that we do, is work that is needed to get through tough conversations, impact change and strengthen organizations.

Community college administrator

To a professional, our people were energized and brought into the processes you facilitated. They were prepared and motivated to expand attention on their root cause analysis, community engagement and short-term wins.

District leader

Design camp was a safe space where student's voices were heard and represented and it was fun to feel a part of something bigger than just myself.

High school student

The work that Community Design Partners does is extremely underrated. Most often people refer to this work as "soft work" or work that is focused on "feelings" . The work that you all do, that we do, is work that is needed to get through tough conversations, impact change and strengthen organizations.

Community college administrator

To a professional, our people were energized and brought into the processes you facilitated. They were prepared and motivated to expand attention on their root cause analysis, community engagement and short-term wins.

District leader

Design camp was a safe space where student's voices were heard and represented and it was fun to feel a part of something bigger than just myself.

High school student

The work that Community Design Partners does is extremely underrated. Most often people refer to this work as "soft work" or work that is focused on "feelings" . The work that you all do, that we do, is work that is needed to get through tough conversations, impact change and strengthen organizations.

Community college administrator

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