Title: Improve Your Culture With Belonging

Title: Improve Your Culture With Belonging Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship . Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design . Show Highlights Stop redesigning a bad situation. Create roles and scenarios that invite people to contribute in an authentic way. Activities to safely unearth memories of not belonging to avoid retraumatization for learning communities. Why is it fundamental for school leaders to care about creating belonging? A threshold exercise designed for concrete listening. Know the 3 dimensional levels to pay attention to at critical junctures with staff, students and parents. Simple Interventions for students to support their success and avoid shut down. Redesign a back to school ritual to interrupt some of the traditional power dynamics in a school. The "assumption storm" analytic tool for generating ideas you need to know. "Having an identity as a learner is fundamental to getting to learn anything else. As a...