Ideation and Collaboration

The first part of the process is a divergent thinking process called Ideation and Collaboration. Divergent thinking is a process that encourages multiple possible solutions in order to generate creative and innovative ideas. The goal is for participants to read and interact with ideas in order to come up with new ideas. This is fun. 

Your Job - Submit, "like", and comment on ideas. We recommend that idea owners continue to edit and update their idea throughout this phase, based on the comments and feedback from participants. Ideas will advance based on popularity and idea rating ("votes").

Idea Prioritization

The next phase is Idea Prioritization. This phase is a convergent process, as the crowd works to converge on, or identify, the best ideas. This is also fun. We will use a unique prioritization process called “Pairwise Voting”. At the end of this phase, all ideas will be ranked in priority order and top ideas will be identified.  

Your Job - Make sure to log in during this phase to prioritize ideas. Voting is not a single event but a repetitive event where two ideas are presented and you choose the idea that best answers the question posed. 

Top Ideas and Solutions

We believe that out of each campaign will come critical insight and information. The consensus building power of this crowdsourcing platform will provide us with tangible ideas to shape the future of education.

Your Job - We know that innovation can be lonely. We predict that each MASSP campaign could galvanize an army of innovators and provide them with the inspiration and data to push conversation in their own districts.