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The purpose of this guide

 

This toolkit was created to empower you and your staff to develop new ways to meet the needs of your students. A combination of teaching tools, activities, and prompts that will help guide you as you navigate new approaches to designing innovative solutions for and with your students.

The themes of activation were carefully crafted through collaborative sessions with students, staff, industry experts, and more, where we took the most pressing issues and questions on everyone’s mind and designed a guide with the intention of infusing meal programs with joy and elevating the school meal experience for all.

How to use the guide

 

  • Start from the home page and dive into immediately implementable tools based on which need resonates most.

  • Jump straight to a tool or method or see the whole catalogue of useful content on the All Resources page

  • Revisit the tools and methods, applying them in new contexts and with new inputs for different outcomes.

  • Share your feedback with us! We want to hear how you used the tools and methods, what worked and what didn’t.

Human-Centered Design

 

Human-Centered Design is a creative approach to problem solving. It’s a process that starts with the people you’re designing with and ends with new solutions that are purpose-built to suit their needs. Human-centered design is about cultivating deep empathy with the people you’re designing for – in this case students; generating ideas, building a bunch of prototypes or experiments, sharing what you’ve made together, and eventually, putting your innovative new solution out in the world. You’ll see this process come to life in three phases - Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation. Learn more in the Methods section of the All Resources page.

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