Case Studies Archive - Community Design Partners

Empathize

Empathize with students means to try to deeply understand the experiences, perspectives, and feelings of students and apply those learnings.

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Empathy Interviews

School teams conduct monthly empathy interviews with students in order to ground their work in student experiences.

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Teacher Fellows

Teachers use multiple feedback methods to center students’ perspectives and test changes to curriculum.

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Student Survey

Student survey data about developmental relationships inform the work of network teams.

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Student Voice

Student voice has become embedded in a school’s culture.

Involve

Involve students means to engage youth in events and processes with adults to share their unique needs, priorities, and perspectives.

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Let Students Lead Youth Advisory Board

How a student advisory board influenced curriculum and developed student advocates

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Youth Participatory Action Research Committee

Empowered youth use action research to examine trauma-informed practices and safe school environments.

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Classroom Observers

Students provide feedback on student-led assessments.

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Feedback Partners

Students provide feedback on student-led assessments.

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Design Camp

To strengthen post-secondary planning, high school graduates and counselors collaborate at design camp.

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Design Collaborative

Students and teachers developed lessons about racial identity through a collaborative on race and racism.

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Feedback Loops

Students and families continuously inform improving Black students’ school experience.

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Change Consultants

Students “stress test” educators’ change ideas about college access.

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Change Agents

Students become partners in re-imagining school culture.

Share decision making

Share decision-making with students means that students play a leadership role in decision-making and have some real decision-making power.

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Participatory Budgeting

Budget decisions are made with students and families.

Youth-Led

Youth-led improvement efforts means that student groups lead their own improvement efforts, from determining their areas of focus to carrying out those changes.

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Student Fellowship

How a student directed fellowship increased college access for underrepresented students

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Youth Ambassadors

A student group uses continuous improvement to solve complex problems they see in their schools.

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Student Network

In a regional student network, students used continuous improvement strategies to identify a problem and test change ideas.

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Ambassador Network

A network of student ambassadors works to improve college access.

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Let Students Lead Youth Advisory Board

How a student advisory board influenced curriculum and developed student advocates

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Student Fellowship

How a student directed fellowship increased college access for underrepresented students

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Youth Participatory Action Research Committee

Empowered youth use action research to examine trauma-informed practices and safe school environments.

Case Study

Classroom Observers

Students provide feedback on student-led assessments.

Case Study

Feedback Partners

Students provide feedback on student-led assessments.

Case Study

Design Camp

To strengthen post-secondary planning, high school graduates and counselors collaborate at design camp.

Case Study

Design Collaborative

Students and teachers developed lessons about racial identity through a collaborative on race and racism.

Case Study

Empathy Interviews

School teams conduct monthly empathy interviews with students in order to ground their work in student experiences.

Case Study

Feedback Loops

Students and families continuously inform improving Black students’ school experience.

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Teacher Fellows

Teachers use multiple feedback methods to center students’ perspectives and test changes to curriculum.

Case Study

Youth Ambassadors

A student group uses continuous improvement to solve complex problems they see in their schools.

Case Study

Change Consultants

Students “stress test” educators’ change ideas about college access.

Case Study

Student Network

In a regional student network, students used continuous improvement strategies to identify a problem and test change ideas.

Case Study

Participatory Budgeting

Budget decisions are made with students and families.

Case Study

Student Survey

Student survey data about developmental relationships inform the work of network teams.

Case Study

Ambassador Network

A network of student ambassadors works to improve college access.

Case Study

Change Agents

Students become partners in re-imagining school culture.

Case Study

Student Voice

Student voice has become embedded in a school’s culture.