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CREATEd Co-Design Toolkit

from the Center for Research Use in Education

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Methods and Opportunities for Resource Testing

Gather feedback on your prototype with users to improve design and impact.

Methods and Opportunities for Resource Testing

Guide to Types of Research

Understand research types to inform selection of research for codesign.

Guide to Types of Research

Building and Supporting an Effective Team

Foster equity, trust, and collaboration to achieve collaborative goals.

Building and Supporting an Effective Team

Engagement and Dissemination Planner

Plan strategies to reach audiences and assess impact.

Engagement and Dissemination Planner

Scope & Schedule Planning Sheet

Organize tasks, assign roles, and plan for success.

Scope & Schedule Planning Sheet

Feedback Facilitation Template

Gather purposeful feedback to improve your design.

Feedback Facilitation Template

Framing the Research

Craft messages that resonate with your audience’s values and needs.

Framing the Research

CoDesign Role Guide for Designers

Clarify your role, contribute meaningfully, and co-create with equity.

CoDesign Role Guide for Designers

CoDesign Role Guide for Practitioners & Others

Clarify your role, contribute meaningfully, and co-create with equity.

CoDesign Role Guide for Policy, Practitioner, and Other Interestholders

Audience Activity

Identify and understand who you’re designing for—and why.

Audience Activity

Brainstorming

Generate, share, and prioritize creative ideas to meet the team’s goals.

Brainstorming

Resource Selection Essential Questions

Choose a resource format that fits your team’s capacity and goals.

Resource Selection Essential Questions

Design Principles and Considerations

Ensure your design is clear, inclusive, and purpose-driven.

Design Principles and Considerations

(Re)Centering Tool

Align goals, equity, and resources – then revisit and refine together.

(Re)Centering Tool

Design Review Checklist

Evaluate your prototype for quality, equity, and usability.

Design Review Checklist

Evaluation Planning Guide

Define impact, track progress, and plan for meaningful evaluation.

Evaluation Planning

Sensemaking Worksheet

Reflect, critique, and construct meaning from research collaboratively.

Sensemaking Worksheet

Best Practices in Dissemination

Plan, launch, and assess how your resource reaches its audience.

Best Practices in Dissemination

Facilitator's Guide to Sensemaking Conversation

Support shared understanding of research through inclusive facilitation.

Facilitator's Guide to Sensemaking Conversation

Dimensions of Equity

Center equity in goals, process, and outcomes of collaboration.

Dimensions of Equity

Defining the Problem

Collaboratively frame and refine problems for equitable co-design solutions.

Defining the Problem

Research Evaluation Guide

Assess research quality, relevance, and equity.

Research Evaluation Guide

CoDesign Role Guide for Researchers

Clarify your role, contribute meaningfully, and co-create with equity.

CoDesign Role Guide for Researchers
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