Rice & Beans
for everyone
Instructions
COPY THIS TEMPLATE PAGE then [insert your logo here]
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Solution we want to spread/scale:
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
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Becky’s team E then [insert your logo here]
Problem we seek to address:
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What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
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me/ETc- Erika and Tati
Problem we seek to address:
Many organizations have the mindsets and behaviors of designing products and solutions without clearly identifying the problem addressing or rationale connected to these products/solutions and often time void of cultural context.
Solution we want to spread/scale:
The HOEA Method builds an awareness of group dynamics and cultivates a collective culture of engagement. The elements of this Method include 1) fostering relational trust and a sense of place in order to 2) develop shared understanding of desired results, 3) determine evidence of success, and 4) create impact-focused action plans.
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
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Shelley and Crystal’s PAGE
Problem we seek to address:
Lack of coherence and shared ownership limits the quality of improvement and innovation in US K-12 educational settings.
Solution we want to spread/scale:
The tools, methods and processes school systems need to overcome internal barriers, implement a collective plan, and free the system so our clients can tackle complex problems and rebuild their schools with sustainable solutions.
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
Questions and/or requests for feedback:
We consistently get feedback from outside folks that they don’t really know what we do. What suggestions might you have for us based on these statements? Is this too complex? We get conflicting ideas/ suggestions around our Mission, Vision, Purpose statements? HELP!
Cate & Curtis - CARE Network
Problem we seek to address: An inequitable education system, that disproportionately �discriminates against Black, LatinX and students from low income backgrounds that impacts students’ academic success.
Solution we want to spread/scale: We want to empower schools to be able to fix their own problems through lesson study and continuous improvement:
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
Mindset shift - people need to agree that there’s a problem. Using data as a tool for equity.
Questions and/or requests for feedback:
Shifting mindsets is hard, but necessary - how do we push on mindsets and using data simultaneously, without overwhelming people?
Opening Minds through Art (OMA) - Meghan Young
Problem we seek to address:
Solution we want to spread/scale:
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
Rice
Beans
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Construct (Danya Rose-Merkle + Kate Martinez)
Problem we seek to address: Public K-12 Schools are increasingly removed from what students need to thrive in an uncertain future. Teachers and students can end up feeling disengaged and disempowered, removed from the innovation skills-building and difference-making that they can bring back to their communities.
Solution we want to spread/scale: To engage K-12 students in skills-building for success in an increasingly uncertain future, we build and produce design challenge learning experiences with industry mentor support, inspiring students to solve real world problems in their community. We develop and provide toolkits and training for teachers to spread these learning experiences throughout their schools and begin to transform the student experience, teacher practice, and school culture..
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)? :
Questions and/or requests for feedback: 1) One of our challenges is the problem is complex, the schools system is complex, we’re trying to simplify our solution to a complex problem and context - any feedback on simplification? (Our solution to simplification is focusing on design challenges as a vehicle for change) 2) Teachers/schools are overwhelmed... how to we get them to try something new like this when they are so overwhelmed? 3) If we can only make this equitable working IN the system (core classes), but school adoption/culture shift takes so long, how can we address the pressing urgency of the NEED for equity as we scale? (It’s very hard to get curriculum into core classes at scale, esp. Because our service increases hard-to-measure skills like collaboration, problem solving, engagement, creative confidence, etc.)
South West Integrated Personalised Care
Problem we seek to address:
Dis-empowering people makes them sicker. First do no harm! What health and care system can justify its existence if it delivers impersonal care?
Solution we want to spread/scale:
Listening to what matters to people and putting it into action
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
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What do you think? This feels like a significant fundamental cultural shift!
The Women in Fitness Association, WIFA | Lindsey Rainwater, Founder & CEO
Problem we seek to address: Activate women to support women
Solution we want to spread/scale:
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
Rice: Authenticity, Integrity, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Inclusive Collaboration, Global impact
Protein: Women supporting Women, Platforms to create success for women (courses, calls, webinars, courses )
Veg/spice: Program topics, what is involved in our membership
Questions and/or requests for feedback: As an association, we are membership focused and WHAT the members do is what generates the how of our action that creates our WHY = Advocating for women's rights… I am having a time giving my board of directors a clear call to action when fundraising because they are missing the clear advocating heartstring to pull… is it a story of how a woman succeeding? Is it demonstrating the pay gap and then pointing to our solutions organizations can take on? Do we flip the script and lead with our advocacy work and follow up with the membership whereas right now we lead with the membership to ignite women helping women as the groundwork...
Gina Olabuenaga
Problem we seek to address: �Address an inequitable education system that fails to center learners–who they are and how they learn
Solution we want to spread/scale: �The solution is to make evidence-based constructivist learning experiences and materials accessible to everyone–young people, educators, and families/caregivers alike. reDesign will democratize curriculum and learning supports through (a.) training of educators and curriculum writers, (b.) establishing a marketplace for curriculum and learning materials that will be available to all at free to low cost; (c.) creation and facilitation of a Lab School, and (d.) movement building through the creation and publication of revised K–12 content maps that are based first and foremost on a multicultural, anti-racist approach.
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)? �(RICE) Agency, Community, Expertise - Through the training for and availability of materials, we will advance educational equity by supporting/cultivating educators’ and young people’s expertise to solve real issues that impact their various communities. �(BEANS) Learner-centered Communities Framework - The non-negotiable pillars of the curriculum are connectedness, critical consciousness, and competence.�(VEGGIES & SPICES) Curriculum materials are flexible and designed with the expectation that educators adapt for their specific learners’ needs, identities, and context. Schools and systems can adopt or adapt the reDesign competencies as needed.
Questions and/or requests for feedback: �Tips for simplification or push on the problem we seek to address. Otherwise, if you see something, say something!
Gina Olabuenaga
Problem we seek to address: �XX
Solution we want to spread/scale: �XX
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)? �(RICE) XX�(BEANS) XX�(VEGGIES & SPICES) XX
Questions and/or requests for feedback: �XX
Applied Coaching for Project Website
Problem we seek to address: �Not all shelters are able to provide animals at risk with the Right Care in the Right Place at the Right Time to the Right Outcome (in their community - does this need to be explicit?)
Solution we want to spread/scale: �All shelters are able to provide the four rights to every animal at risk in their community. We will achieve this through training, will-building in community, provision of resources and policy support.
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)? �Rice: Every shelter provides a humane environment for people and animals and operates with deep respect for the diversity of human and animal experience.�Beans: Every animal at risk is triaged in the context of that animal’s needs�Animals that have a home return to that home.�Healthy and treatable animals that need homes get homes.�Dangerous and and irremediably suffering animals are humanely euthanized.
Questions and/or requests for feedback: Is our solution too vague or too tactical? We weren’t sure what was the solution and what was/were the beans? Do we need to only have one bean? Do we need to provide more detail/tactics for each bean?
UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program:
Kate Hurley, Karol Tapias, Cindi Delany, Cindy Karsten, Mandy Newkirk, Andy Cowitt, Denae Wagner, Elise Pollard
Problem we seek to address: (actual problem, not the problem framed by solution)�Historically the default response to animal-related concerns has been ad hoc (unscheduled, unplanned) impoundment into shelters. As a result, animals lose their homes, homes lose their animals, shelters become crowded and some animals lose their lives. The negative consequences of this system have disproportionately affected people and animals from marginalized communities and participating in this system is painful and exhausting for people who work and volunteer in shelters. (from Kate)
Solution we want to spread/scale: �All shelters are able to provide the four rights to every animal at risk in their community. We will achieve this through training, will-building in community, provision of resources and policy support.
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)? �Rice:
Every shelter provides a humane environment for people and animals and operates with deep respect for the diversity of human and animal experience.�Beans:
Questions and/or requests for feedback: We’ve revised our problem, to avoid framing it in light of the solution. We’ve added 2 more beans.
UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program:
Kate Hurley, Karol Tapias, Cindi Delany, Cindy Karsten, Mandy Newkirk, Andy Cowitt, Denae Wagner, Elise Pollard
REVISED 9/9/21
Problem we seek to address: Parent wellbeing is an often overlooked element in the context of child academic and socio-emotional outcomes. In order for a child to thrive, parents need to be able to build and maintain their own health and happiness, a safe and stable home, a strong relationship with their child, and at least one trusting, healthy relationship with another adult.
Solution we want to spread/scale: Improve the wellness of parents through safe, nonjudgmental relationships in service of children’s academic, socio-emotional, and health outcomes.
The Primary School (Nikhil, Meredith, McHale, Valentina, Lindsey, Ryan)
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HOT SAUCE
Relative advantage: 7
Compatible: 6
Simple: 4
Trialable: 5
Observable: 5
Scalable: 3
Adaptable: 6
Problem we seek to address:
Inequitable early childhood systems serving Black and Latinx families in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Solution we want to spread/scale:
UB’s approach to Early Intervention racial equity
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)?
COPY THIS TEMPLATE PAGE then [insert your logo here]
Problem we seek to address: Poor maternal & children health outcomes
Solution we want to spread/scale: Improved access to care, evidence-based hospital practices, consistent breastfeeding messages
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Afribuk Society ( Jimmie)
Problem we seek to address: low literacy rates, lack of belonging for youth, access to books and other school materials for learning. Most children in Kenya struggle to achieve basic literacy: seven out of 10 third-grade students are unable to read at a second-grade level. Even by fifth grade, many children are not reading at a second-grade level. These problems are particularly prevalent in many under-resourced communities in the marginalized towns, where there are fewer schools or even on most occasions no school at all. Outside of the classroom, most children have few opportunities for reading because of predominant tasks at home and other limitations. Through the ambassadorship program , we seek to increase agency, urgency and call youth to action for their community needs. Also extend human connection that largely leads to belonging which contributes to student thriving.
Solution we want to spread/scale: Literacy programs (Afribuk Read to Rise events)
What’s the rice & beans (what is essential)? innovative literacy curriculum, partnerships with other organizations. Afribuk’s programming focuses on both motivation and evidence-based practices aligned to the science of reading. We focus on programming that supports students with HOW to read/write/create/speak/listen alongside motivation to WANT to read and write, And for educators and community mobilizers/ambassadors, teachers to learn evidence-based, joyful practice
Questions and/or requests for feedback: Is this the correct depiction of our rice and beans? Are we too specific ? I was wondering with the ambassadorship program we just added, does it also fall into our rice and beans?