The leadership team at D39C uses design thinking everyday as we tackle the challenges of changing the way we do school. Through our first set of informational meetings, we entered the empathy stage of the design process. We have been asking tough questions and collecting this data from the community. We spend hours upon hours researching and collecting ideas of things that are working in schools already, communicating with schools from around the country, and talking with experts in education. Problems are defined and we spend time ideating and brainstorming innovative solutions. The next step is to create a model or prototype and to test our solution, always knowing that if something isn’t working, we can always take a step back in the design process. The design process is truly at the heart of everything we do.
With a little bit of design thinking, we should be able to solve this problem for Bret or any other teacher at D39C!
DEFINE:
IDEATE and BRAINSTORM:
What are some possible solutions to our problem? This is where the team sat around the table and threw out some possible ideas.
- We could use a wagon or some sort of device for pulling.
- We could carry all of our supplies around.
- We could put mobile desks in classrooms.
- We could put stationary desks in classrooms.
- We could buy a device that doesn’t exactly meet our needs.
- We could use a rolling podium.
- We could design our own rolling storage cart with podium.
- We could have stationary storage cubbies in each room.
- We could have mobile storage cubbies in each room.
At this point, we decided that the product we may be looking for is some sort of mobile “teacher” cart.
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