How do you design for diversity, inclusion, and equity in your community? #EduCommunity Answers (Part 4 of 5)

• Voice and choice
• Inviting purposely
• Asking questions
• Design by starting with the people who will be part of the community — their needs, hopes, desires. Include all voices.
• Intentional conversations and action-oriented responses
• When people understand each other, they can embrace this in the community
• Tolerance bringer peace
• Inspiring your community to come together for a common cause
• Flexibility, always changing, communication, risk-takers
• University students + K-5 students + children’s hospital + industry
• New + real problems
• To include diverse teachers in planning
• Talk to students all the time
• Intentionally self-reflect and assess. Bring new voices to the table. Move the table if needed. Identify and reach outside your network. Co-design.
• Ask hard ?s. Bring in all stakeholders. Go slow.
• Include voices from the community representing the diverse perspectives
• Value everyone’s perspective and make mission-aligned decisions
• Bringing multiple perspectives to the table
• The UE program is open to all students — everyone is learning communication skills and part of the conversation
• Bring people together in neutral places and create a new revised network
• Meeting students where they are. Lots of individual modifications
• Reach out to different communities
• LISTEN FIRST
• By knowing they exist and find solutions in those space. Stakeholder input
• Creating a variety of learning opportunities for each required skill
• Open
• Reuniting a diverse group of participants
• Designs that don’t create a marginalized student → materials, access, visuals, culture, language
• Visioning process
• With a common goal with all parties considered
• We promote restorative justice
• Make efforts to include all stakeholders (not centrally race)

See

• Part 1: What is education innovation?
• Part 2: How do you define community?
• Part 3: What type of community are you building?
• Part 5: What is your major question regarding community building?

The #EduCommunity Answers series transcribes answers to questions given to participants in Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community, a SXSW EDU workshop by Jessica Falkenthal, John Baldo, and Deborah Chang.