You make a great point here about how systems leaders can engage the residents they seek to help in creating better collective impact. The design thinking approach is catching on in public education, especially, via STEM education. Thanks for exploring this linkage between design thinking and collective impact. Education leaders are already becoming more and more “bilingual” in the languages of both theories, so I’m thinking the marriage of the two could help systems leaders figure out how to help build the voice of parents at the economic margins.
Chris—thanks so much for this comment. As a former middle school teacher, I completely agree that design thinking and collective impact have an absolute role to play in education. In particular, design thinking provides collective impact with new and highly relevant insights that come directly from the ‘end users’ themselves (students and parents)—which in turn can help inform, validate and inspire the large scale, systemic solutions that collective impact aims to employ.
We are using this process to discover the felt needs of parents and caregivers of children with a disability or delay. Three south west Ohio counties are implementing our tools and processes with a beta to prove our concept.,
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BY Chris Barge
ON April 3, 2015 09:56 AM
You make a great point here about how systems leaders can engage the residents they seek to help in creating better collective impact. The design thinking approach is catching on in public education, especially, via STEM education. Thanks for exploring this linkage between design thinking and collective impact. Education leaders are already becoming more and more “bilingual” in the languages of both theories, so I’m thinking the marriage of the two could help systems leaders figure out how to help build the voice of parents at the economic margins.
BY Kate Hanisian
ON April 3, 2015 11:10 AM
Chris—thanks so much for this comment. As a former middle school teacher, I completely agree that design thinking and collective impact have an absolute role to play in education. In particular, design thinking provides collective impact with new and highly relevant insights that come directly from the ‘end users’ themselves (students and parents)—which in turn can help inform, validate and inspire the large scale, systemic solutions that collective impact aims to employ.
BY Farouke Kilimanjaro
ON April 5, 2015 04:52 AM
multisectoral approaches have a higher success rate than single organizational approaches.
BY Gary Sweeten
ON August 23, 2015 08:20 PM
We are using this process to discover the felt needs of parents and caregivers of children with a disability or delay. Three south west Ohio counties are implementing our tools and processes with a beta to prove our concept.,