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Summary

Questions to answer

Communication to improve

What was the problem we were trying to solve? (What aspect of communication did we want to improve, so that more people in Somerville could collaborate in young people's success?)

Process

how we went about this: How we got this together.

Turning points

Moments when the project got clearer/shaped or a decision made, to support the communications needed. e.g., a moment when someone said “we should create a hotline!” and we started to prototype it.

How tos

if you want to do this. (tone: we didn’t necessarily do this well, but if you wanted to do this too, this is what you’d do. (include technical instructions.)

Stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks. (gaffes or glitches that you’d need to consider if you were to work on this sort of thing.)

Findings

finding = conclusion

straight from the “data.” a factual statement: “the teachers and students took off with the texting tool and used it regularly to glue their relationships together.”

very visual examples

of products: actual texts. actual eportfolios. always with commentary: concretely, what is the communication made possible, here? (show a text and say, “there’s no way that the teacher would have been able to reach a kid before school without this wakeup text.” a bigger aha: what is the communication made possible? “

example

show a texting exchange. Label it. Have a young person and teacher comment on it.

example

point to a text box on the dashboard. What does it make possible? the ability for the parent to “speak back” to data.

Things we'd do differently

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