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Day School Collaboration Network

Design Thinking &Adaptive Leadership

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What’s an innovation that’s made a difference in your life or community?

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Why?

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How do you think about innovators?

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Most really successful innovators focus on people and experiences.

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Innovators see the present in new ways…

WHAT IS

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…helping them see the future in new ways.

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

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Innovators focus on real details others miss…

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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…and gain perspective others never reach.

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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Innovating successfully is hard.There are technical challenges

and adaptive challenges

Requiring more know-how or resources

Requiring deep change from organizations and people

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Design Thinking and Adaptive Leadership are practices for doing and managing the organizational challenges of human-centered innovation.

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We immerse deeply “at the extremes” to pull out new observations about what people experience and why…

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

immersefor observations

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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We get up on the balcony to frame technical and adaptive challenges/opportunities for greatest impact…

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

immersefor observations

frameopportunities

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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We imagine ideas to realize those opportunities…

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

immersefor observations

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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We prototype rapid, low-risk experiments that make iteratively larger aspects of ideas and experiences real…

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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…and re-immerse these experiments to gain new observations, opportunities, and ideas for improvement.

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

CONCRETEDETAILS

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We use these modes agilely and mindfully – often experimenting early to learn.

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

CONCRETEDETAILS

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

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WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

CONCRETEDETAILS

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

And we constantly access the entire collective creativity of our community, building stronger innovations, innovators and relationships.

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How much are these a part of your work today?

When we do anything….

We try to deeply understand the people involved. We seek to continuously frame a powerful

perspective on the situation or “system” and how to impact it.

We broadly imagine solutions. We rapidly prototype and iterate. A lot. We draw deeply from the insights, intelligence,

imagination and practices of our community.

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What came first: the chicken or the egg?

The more you use the process, the more the process becomes you.

Who knows?!

You →

Design Thinking →

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To begin, we need at least a little of the following mindsets (they develop as we go).

How we speak shapes how we think, so each mindset has “mantras” that we use regularly.

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Jewish Day school communities face major challenges.

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What if we approached our big challenges with Design Thinking and Adaptive Leadership ?

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

CONCRETEDETAILS

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

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What if we created cultures of innovation—schools filled with design thinkers who practice this in every action and interaction?

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

CONCRETEDETAILS

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

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What if these design thinkers could help spread this culture throughout Jewish day schools?

WHAT ISWHAT COULD BE

CONCRETEDETAILS

immersefor observations

prototypeexperiments

frameopportunities

imagineideas

HIGH-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE

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Come find out this year with The Jewish Education Project, Upstart Bay Area, and the Day School Collaboration Network!