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PAIS Strategy and Values Sales Piece v9 180712

PAIS Strategy and Values Sales Piece v9 180712

Keywords: values strategy pais notosh

SchooL
values

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Strategy
incubator

School Values and Strategy Incubator

The Objective

Do you really know who you are as a school from the perspective
of all stakeholders?

Do your Values reflect both who you are and who you aspire to be?

Do you have North Stars to act as a behavioural compass to guide
decision making?

Do you have a clear, ambitious Objective, to which everyone in the
school is working toward for the next ’n’ years?

Do you know what Actions the school might need to work on in
order to put the Strategy into action?

Do you have a process that ensures the creation of quality
projects, while still letting people get on with the innovating that
will help them reach that objective?

By the end you’ll be able to answer ‘yes’ to all these questions.
Along the way, you’ll be challenged, tested and entertained in equal
measure with exercises like:
• Identifying Assumptions, Insights and Questions
• Getting Under The Skin of the school community
• Learn techniques that will be transferable to
you school from the classroom to the
boardroom
• Stories that Define School
• Mudmapping Fresh Processes
• Amplify, Change and Ditch

About this opportunity

Who are NoTosh?

NoTosh is a world leader in Design Thinking, and we work with
many of the world’s top schools on developing strategy. We help
people to think differently and change the way they choose to
work as individuals, as part of a team and as part of an
organisation.

PAIS has partnered with NoTosh to offer smaller schools in the opportunity
to do the kind of work that previously might only have been possible for
larger schools with bigger budgets. In our first incubator together, we’ll
help schools make crystal clear what it is that makes them tick and identify
where they’re headed in the future - we’ll help you redefine your core
values and create action around strategy from the get-go.
We know that core values are not found by sitting around a Boardroom
table, and using one jargon-filled true-ism after another. You find your core
values by getting out there, truly learning to look, not just see; to listen, not
just hear. Core values are what guides your schools decision making for the
next 30 to 40 years, these are your North Stars.
Strategy is dynamic and should never be just another document that sits
on people’s shelves, unread and unloved. This incubator will help
leadership teams work out how to make strategy work for the every day,
and engage the whole community in building their ideas, for years to
come.

Why now?
International schools, in particular, face a persistent challenge. On the one
hand, schools face pressure from parents to see each child succeed by
traditional measures, and on the other schools want to prepare young
people with an array of innovative learning experiences to help prepare
students for the fast-changing world beyond school. How do we help
students develop the kind of skills that their futures demand, such as
collaboration, how to think creatively and critically, how to work alone,
together, and how to solve problems that we didn’t even know existed
before? Key to schools achieving this kind of objective is to define the
values that take in their communities voice, and carve out a new way of
doing strategy.

The NoTosh Design Thinking Process Immersion How will we go about it?
Synthesis
The NoTosh Values and Strategy Incubator
Ideation provides a safe but experimental
Prototyping environment - along with the power of a
network of peers - for schools to find out
Feedback and work through who they are, where
they want to go and how to put it into
action.
Up to four member schools will have the
chance to participate in the inspiring and
highly creative process. The incubator is
designed to establish the true north stars
of each school and build the strategy and
tactics to take each there, by creating
innovative, manageable ideas from within
the teaching and leadership team.
The NoTosh Design Thinking process is
made up of five different stages, each
designed to help you think differently and
approach problems with an open mind.
Immersion is all about establishing the
current state of affairs in your school in
relation to the challenge you’re facing
(even when you don’t know what this is).
The Synthesis stage helps you to make
sense of the data you’ve gathered
through a range of activities and identify
the root of the challenge you face.
The next stage is Ideation, where we’ll
work with you to generate hundreds of
different ideas, from the crazy to the
ingenious. Prototyping will help you
decide which ideas have potential. Once
you’ve extracted the best ideas you can
begin to test them in action.
Finally, we’ll show you some great ways to
get rich, valuable and useable Feedback
from your wider community as you move
forward with your ideas.

The NoTosh Design Thinking process is
unique, flexible, creative and innovative.
It works in every environment, from the
classroom to the boardroom, helping
you see things you hadn’t seen before
and discover things you didn’t know
you needed to discover!
Through a series of design sprints each
school team will:
• Co-design some of the building

blocks that will help you get up and
running, with Design Thinking at the
heart of our approach;

• Unpack what the unique value
proposition of your school is and
how it stands apart from all other
schools in the area;

• Understand how each school might
develop a Prototyping Culture for
Strategy Development;

• Decide upon your own North Stars,
and develop strategy to help them
get there.

Deliverables
• A highly visible and accessible

process and physical space in
school, where evidence that leads
to the definition of those core
values can be seen, consulted and
added to;
• A concrete, concise, jargon-free
expression of the values of the
school, that is clear and useful
enough to serve as a compass
during the creation of any
strategic plan, for years
afterwards. Our award-winning
creative and strategy teams will
help you nail this;
• A wealth of data to feed into an
immediate-future strategy process;
• A clear, ambitious Objective to
which everyone in the school is
working for the next ’n’ years;
• A manageable number of Strategic
Projects to reach that objective,
clearly stated so that anyone
in the school community ‘gets’
them and can be part of making
them happen;
• The beginning of a process to
identify the Actions that the
school might need to work
on in order to put the Strategy
into action.

A Values and Strategy
Incubator Timeline

This is the kind of timeframe PAIS might
want to explore for creating an active
community of schools who form a high-
paced incubator of design thinking
practice:

Month 1: PAIS put out the call to Timeline
action, with a short video from Ewan
McIntosh NoTosh Founder, outlining Summer
the potential of design thinking for PAIS Approach Schools
those schools seeking a clear and
concise jargon-free expression of their
values, that is clear and useful enough
to serve as a compass during the
creation of any strategic plan, for years
afterwards.

Month 2: Selected schools have a Term 1
video briefing with the NoTosh team, Video Briefing with NoTosh
and undertake an audit of existing
strategies, tactics and values. They will Audit & Data Gathering
also be walked through some new
tools to gather data(beyond surveys).

Month 3: Participating schools attend Initial Incubator Sprint
their first Incubator Sprint, providing Term 2
keynote and hands-on workshops. By
the end of the session they will have a Face-to-Face Event:
clear next steps including a range of Synthesis and Ideation
tools to use to achieve them.
Month 4: Face-to-face event. Synthesis
and Ideation workshop: bringing
together observations and data from
Immersion, schools will pull it all
together to reveal the underlying core
values. Implicitly this leads to defining
challenges and opportunities that exist
in the school. Teams will then design
ingenious solutions that could resolve
identified problems or realize the
opportunities they have discovered.

Design Teams Undertake Month 4-5: Design team undertake
Immersion Activities Immersion activities, gathering data and
Term 3 placing in War Room. To find the core
Coaching Sessions with values, teams will dig into the school’s
NoTosh Begin history, current lived story and aspirations
Term 4 for the future. Schools have one coaching
School Pitches and session from the local NoTosh team, and
Celebration Event Hosted online coaching with the NoTosh global
By PAIS team.
Month 5 - 7: Prototyping Cycle: A
significant prototype, building on
changed practice, but focussing on how
one plans ambitious design thinking
strategic projects. Online and face-to-face
coaching continues, bringing our
copywriting and strategy teams’ expertise
to help you form an ambitious objective,
and the strategies to get there.
Month 8: Celebration event hosted by
PAIS Schools pitch their practice,
prototypes and strategy and the benefit
observed for all stakeholders. This, can be
opened to a wider audience.

SELECTED
CASE STUDIES

Selected NoTosh Case Studies

NoTosh and Independent SchooIlSsVVictoria’s DESIGN THINKING FOR
(ISV) inaugural Design Thinking Incubator has LEARNING: The ISV
broken barriers that have traditionally Incubator

prevented schools improving learning as Independent Schools
swiftly as they want, by providing a safe space Victoria, Melbourne,
for educators and leaders to experiment, Australia
implement and measure their innovative 2017-18
practice.

The six month program brought together an active
community of six ISV member schools, that included a
mixture of face-to-face contact days and online
coaching.

The first Incubator Sprint saw each team engage in a
hands-on, energetic and exciting day of workshops
where attendees explored the elements and stages of
NoTosh Design Thinking, potential areas for
development within their school, and worked to identify
a key area in their own teaching that could benefit from
a change in process.

After undertaking a four week challenge where the
teams focused on invoking a change in pedagogy, they
gathered together again for the second Incubator day
with NoTosh. Teachers returned to their schools at the
conclusion of the day armed with reevaluated, redefined
and renewed prototypes, ready to embrace the next
round of challenges coming their way.

As the program began to come to it’s conclusion, ISV and
NoTosh arranged for a final, all school incubator day in
July. The celebratory event, hosted by ISV, focused on
giving each teacher the opportunity to share and reflect
on their journey and feedback to one another.

The incubator challenged teachers and leaders to stretch
their thinking, abandon preconceptions surrounding
change, and encouraged each individual to embrace new,
innovative and exciting teaching and learning practices.

“It was a positive learning environment where all
participants felt equal, valued and supported. A
tangible buzz in the room was contagious and helped
lead to exciting teaching approaches. It was inspiring
to hear ideas generated by other schools!”

ISV Incubator Participant 2017

Elmwood School, based in Ottawa, Canada, is EDUCATING WOMEN OF
determined to create an exceptional learning THE FUTURE: Whole
experience for each student. But how do you to School Strategic
deliver an innovative and engaging education Program Design
while working within the constraints of a rigid
curriculum? Elmwood School,
Ottawa, Canada
Elmwood wanted to achieve a long-term and deeply- 2017-18
rooted change across the school, from Primary to
Diploma level. With support from NoTosh, they
developed a proactive, focused and ambitious
program to create an even more engaging experience
for students. This bespoke strategic program, co-
designed with the school, has energised how the
leadership, teachers and students lead and learn.

Focusing initially on the Middle Years, the school
embraced the NoTosh Design Thinking process, using
its principles to tackle large, complex and challenging
questions, issues and ideas. Teachers reached out
beyond their teams, interviewing parents, students
and local members of the community, testing their
early stage prototypes and giving and receiving
feedback. They showcased these to leadership in a
pitch to show just how their prototype would change
the teaching and learning at Elmwood for the better
with almost every prototype given approval to be put
into practice.

The transparency of thinking and development shown
by NoTosh has been absorbed by the Middle Years
staff, as they work effectively together in small groups,
with their thoughts, ideas and concerns now shared.
Ongoing support from the NoTosh team ensures that
Elmwood School is fully engaged with the future
challenge of driving change through the rest of the
school, in phases of work involving Primary staff and
finally the Diploma Programme team.

“The process was very clear, support was available
at the drop of a hat, and all the NoTosh staff were
dedicated and committed to making the online
coaching work and deliver the best outcomes
possible.”

Cheryl Boughton, Head of School, Elmwood School

Let’s start talking. NOTOSH LTD (EMEA) NOTOSH LTD NOTOSH INC
27 Lauriston Street, (AUSTRALIA) NoTosh, Inc.,

[email protected] Edinburgh, PO Box 47, PO Box 1520,

EH3 9DQ, Collins Street West,
UK Victoria, New York
8007,
Australia NY 10013

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