Co-Designing Schools Toolkit

The Co-Designing Schools Toolkit represents a compilation of efforts and insights, in hopes of making the co-design process accessible to anyone who wishes to use it to pursue equitable change in schools.

Use these resources to lead your team through a design journey that surfaces solutions for students furthest from opportunity in your school community. Work through each phase in order or choose a specific phase that best fits your team’s needs.

Released in Fall 2020, the Toolkit is a collection of 40 activities, frameworks, and research-based practices collected together by The Teachers Guild and School Retool programs, supported by and in collaboration with Riverdale Country School, the Deeper Learning network, Liberatory Design, National Equity Project, the Stanford d.school, and the input of educators, local collaborators, and coaches.

The Co-Designing Schools Toolkit exists to increase accessibility to a design-driven, equity-centred, and collaborative process—all in hopes that educators customize resources for their own context, leading their school teams through a process of transformation for the sake of all students, regardless of who they are or how they learn.

Browse all the tools and resources that make up the Co-Designing Schools Toolkit.