Inclusive Innovation
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Item Open Access Recruitment and Retention: Impact of Pilot Solutions Designed by Teachers of Color Phase II Report(Digital Promise, 2024-05) Constance Iloh, Ph.D.For the past three years, Digital Promise has embarked on an expansive and human-centered endeavor to empower school districts to cultivate context-relevant solutions to the teacher of color workforce disparities. Through Digital Promise’s Inclusive Innovation approach, teachers of color from various school districts were engaged to develop and implement meaningful solutions to address training, recruiting, and/or retaining teachers of color. This report explores how these co-constructed solutions were implemented, their impact, and the potential to scale these efforts to create sustainable change for teachers of color in the present and future.Item Open Access Realizing District-Community Driven Outcomes Through Inclusive Innovation(Digital Promise, 2024-05) Latia P. White, Ed.D.; Alexandra Merritt Johnson, Ph.D.This report examines the implementation of the Inclusive Innovation model across various pilot districts, spotlighting the collaborative processes of co-research and co-design involving students, educators, administrators, and community members. By centering the voices of students and communities who typically are furthest from opportunity, Inclusive Innovation fosters the development of solutions intended to mitigate education inequities. The report illustrates how Inclusive Innovation, through the co-creation of solutions by district-community teams focused on equity-centered outcomes, not only achieves perceived success in meeting those outcomes but also fosters a sense of empowerment and ownership among all participants.Item Open Access Sustainability in Inclusive Innovation: District-Community Solutions, Mindsets, and Practices(Digital Promise, 2024-05) Viki M. Young, Ph.D.; Alexandra Merritt Johnson, Ph.D.This paper examines the factors that supported sustainability under Inclusive Innovation, an R&D model where students, families, communities, and teachers engage with school and district leaders, researchers, and solution providers to co-research an educational challenge in context and to co-develop solutions to the challenge, with intentional goals to benefit students from historically and systematically excluded communities. Key sustainability factors include garnering buy-in at all levels of the system, iterating to improve implementation, embedding changes in existing structures, and concretely demonstrating the benefits of the solution. In addition, the paper describes the mindsets participants developed and incorporated into their practices as a result of engaging in Inclusive Innovation. These mindsets reflect the Inclusive Innovation Core Tenets of valuing student voice and leadership, context expertise, and pursuing continuity of equity.Item Open Access A New Narrative: How Unlocking the Power of R&D Through Inclusive Innovation Can Transform Education(Digital Promise, 2024-01) Kimberly Smith; Viki YoungAcross the country, district-community teams are tackling pressing and complex educational challenges with Inclusive Innovation, an education R&D model that starts with centering the needs of those most impacted by these challenges. This paper shares the stories, solutions, outcomes, and learnings from years of deep collaboration in the words of students, parents, teachers, and district leaders who have worked together to tackle education challenges—and discusses how the Center for Inclusive Innovation, anchored in its core tenets, is building upon this work with the Inclusive Innovation 2.0 model.Item Open Access Socratic Circles: Building OER Tools for Racial Equity Classroom and Community Discourse(Digital Promise, 2023-11) Alexandra Merritt Johnson; Kristian LendermanThis report details how Reynoldsburg City Schools utilized the Inclusive Innovation model to introduce an innovative Open Educational Resource, Socratic Circles, designed to assist teachers in guiding discussions on racial and social justice in the classroom. These OER will be accessible to educators who are inspired by this work and interested in incorporating Socratic Circles into their classrooms. This report also offers insights from members of Reynoldsburg City Schools’ Inclusive Innovation Core Team on how they applied the Core Tenets of Inclusive Innovation throughout their process.Item Open Access Hidden in Plain Sight: The Opportunity to Bridge District Equity Gaps by Fostering Collaborations with BIPOC Solution Providers(Digital Promise, 2023-10) Alexandra Merritt Johnson, Ph.D.; Sherenna Bates; Kimberly SmithDespite extensive educational reform efforts, social position and identity continue to affect the academic success of historically and systematically excluded students in the United States. To address this, it is imperative to involve BIPOC communities in the creation and selection of education solutions aimed at reducing this inequity. Although BIPOC solution providers possess the expertise and innovative solutions required to meet HSE students’ needs, they often encounter barriers that limit their access to districts and education markets. To bridge this gap, Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation has introduced two innovative approaches: Learning Salons and Solution Showcases. Learning Salons facilitate collaboration and engagement between BIPOC solution providers and district leaders, addressing specific challenges faced by HSE students. Solution Showcases offer an event where district leaders can explore teaching and learning solutions designed by BIPOC providers. This report focuses on the experiences and perspectives of BIPOC solution providers and district leaders navigating the education landscape and highlights their insights from Learning Salons and Solution Showcases. It also highlights factors to consider in overcoming barriers to partnerships between districts and BIPOC solution providers.Item Open Access Recruitment and Retention: Pilot Solutions Designed by Teachers of Color (Phase I)(Digital Promise, 2023-02) Bland, Jennifer; Smith, KimberlyThis report profiles five public PreK-12 learning education agencies across the U.S. that participated in the Digital Promise Center for Inclusive Innovation Teacher of Color Recruitment and Retention cohort and utilized the Inclusive Innovation model to create and launch locally contextualized programs designed by teachers of color.Item Open Access Inclusive Innovation: Increasing Recruitment and Retention of Teachers of Color(Digital Promise, 2021-01) Gold, ThomasTo address the inequities in the teaching workforce and the importance of ensuring all students experience learning from diverse teacher perspectives, Digital Promise launched an initiative to engage teachers of color in developing solutions to improve the recruitment and retention of teachers of color. This report summarizes observations and learnings from design studios and a culminating showcase.Item Open Access Empathy Interviews for Developing Inclusive Computing Pathways(Center for Inclusive Innovation, Digital Promise, 2021) Coenraad, Merijke; Hodge, Malliron; Ruiz, Pati; Mills, Kelly; Burke, QuinnThis interview protocol includes five steps to conduct an empathy interview. In the Empathize Phase of designing an inclusive computing pathway, empathy interviews are conducted. Empathy interviews allow you to hear the stories and experiences of someone who will use what you are designing and learn about their realities, in this case, a student.Item Open Access Designing a Process for Inclusive Innovation: A Radical Commitment to Equity(Digital Promise, 2019-11-06) Angevine, Colin; Cator, Karen; Liberman, Babe; Smith, Kim; Young, VikiThis paper starts from the premise that missing from existing education R&D is a radical commitment to equity. The paper presents Inclusive Innovation, a model that reimagines authority, decision-making, and risk in the context of education R&D and provides an overarching framework for authentically engaging underrepresented stakeholders at the earliest stages and shifting their roles to leaders, participants, and beneficiaries. The power of Inclusive Innovation is that it doesn’t just invite underrepresented voices and perspectives into the innovation ecosystem; it places them at the center of it.