Capture Insights & Create Solutions

Gather Community Feedback

After completing your sketch, it’s time to take it to your community for feedback.

Engage stakeholders—students, teachers, caregivers—to gather input on your design assumptions, activities, and implications. Their insights will help you refine your plan and ensure it’s grounded in the practical needs of your community before moving forward. Use this feedback to adjust your sketch and enhance alignment with your community’s expectations and realities.

Synthesize Insights as a School Design Team

Now that you've gathered feedback from the community, let’s synthesize what we’ve learned together.

Use the following protocol to guide your discussion:

Share Key Takeaways (5 minutes): 
Each person briefly shares one critical insight from the community feedback, focusing on how the design principles and implications were received.
Identify Common Themes (5 minutes): 
As a group, identify common themes or patterns in the feedback. Discuss how these insights reflect the community’s needs and conditions.
Discuss Application (10 minutes): 
Explore how these insights and themes can be integrated into the design. What adjustments are needed, and how can this feedback refine the approach?

Share Back With Your Community

After completing your design sketch, it’s time to bring it back to your community for feedback and alignment.

Sharing the evolving design ensures transparency and builds collective ownership of the process.

Consider using this template to share.

Share the design in formats like parent/caregiver nights, newsletters, or district meetings. Present the vision, gather additional feedback, and encourage discussion on how it aligns with the community’s needs. This moment fosters buy-in and deepens engagement in the redesign process.