Elevated and Empowered Education:

Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations

Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Innovation Project Title:

Area of Innovation:

Teacher Innovator’s Name:

Grade Level and Subject of

Expertise:
School:

Preliminary Work (Rationale):

Describe the general problem in your school that you aim to work on. Explain why you consider it as the “right problem” to be solved. Describe
what have been done to address this problem in your school. Were they successful or not? What gaps do you see in these earlier solutions?

Phase 1: Empathize and Define the Problem

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Stage 1: Empathize

The innovator is given time to empathize or feel for someone who may have or facing some problems. They look at the
needs and concerns of the person whom they are empathizing with, as well as, the social or personal situations they are in.

Guide questions in the Empathy Map:

• What does the person think or feel?
• What does the person see?
• What does the person hear?
• What does the person say or do?
• Pain: What are their biggest frustrations? What obstacles stand in their way? Which risks might they fear taking?
• Gain: What do they need to achieve? How can they become successful or have a good life?

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

What the person thinks or feels What the person sees

What the person hears What the person does/ say

Draw the person.

Pain Gain

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Stage 2: Defining the Problem

In this stage, the innovator defines the specific problem or sets of problems that is intended to be solved. The problem is stated in the
format: “How might…”

Example:
 How might we help students increase the reading comprehension level of students in Social Studies?
 How might we enable effective feedback loop for students using printed modules and has no gadgets at home?
 How might we make the school a bullying-free campus?
 How might we help illiterate parents to be better learning managers at home?

Note: Do NOT yet think of a solution! Focus on developing the problem first.

Write your specific problem here:

Example: How might we help parents who cannot read and write to be better learner managers at home for Kinder students who use
print-based distance learning?

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Phase 2: Ideating and Prototyping

Stage 3: Ideating Solutions

Innovators lay their plan on how to solve or provide a solution to the problem. They identify as many solutions as they can. In the end,
they need to choose the “best” solution according to feasibility, effectivity, and efficiency.”

 feasibility - Is the solution “do-able” or capable of being accomplished?

 effectivity - Will the solution be “effective” enough to address and solve the problem?
 efficiency - Is the solution something that can be done with less effort, money, or materials?
Sample
Solutions Feasibility Effectivity Efficiency
#1: Neighbor Buddy: Assign a Yes! Yes, if continuous. Yes! – but needs materials maybe
neighbor who can read as a Maybe, if they have neighbors. Or if from the school
tutor/reading partner to help the their neighbors are willing to help
parent. and literate.
Or if the neighbors are available.

#2: Online mentoring/reading class Yes! Yes, if parents have access to Depends, if there is budget for
for the parents. Teacher will gadgets, laptops, and the Internet. laptop, gadget, data and connection
conduct the online class for illiterate Yes, if the illiterate knows how to to the Internet.
parents. use the gadgets or have the basic
technology skills
#3: Face-to-face reading class for Yes! Yes, if proper safety protocol are Yes!
parents when they get the modules followed.
of their children.

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

#4: Self-paced learning: How to
Read using Video Learning
materials
#5: Brain transplant for parents
Yes! Yes, if parents have access to
gadgets, laptops, and the Internet.
Yes, if the illiterate knows how to
use the gadgets or have the basic
technology skills
No! No!
Depends, if there is budget for
laptop, gadget, data and connection
to the Internet.
No!

Try Yours
Solutions Feasibility Effectivity Efficiency

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

The “BEST” Solution is… Face-to-face reading class for parents when they get the modules of their children.
because…
Because: it is cost-efficient, will not require much investment/budget.

What type of education innovation will it be? Check that which applies.
Extent of Newness? Type A: Fundamental redesign Type B: Incremental improvement

Ever Done Before? Type A: Invention Type B: Replication

Is the School New? Type A: Creation Type B: Adoption

Who Initiates? Type A: People at the working level Type B: People in outside support roles

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Stages 4-5: Prototyping and Testing

Title of the Education Project:

Short Description, Goals and
Purpose of the Education
Project:

Area of Focus

(Learning-Teaching,
Environment, Building
Capacity, Leadership and
Culture)
Participants
(Size and Method of
Selection)
Procedures
(What will happen to the
participants? How will the
education project be rolled
out?)

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Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

To implement the education MATERIALS:

project, following are needed:

SKILLS:

COLLABORATION/ PARTNERSHIPS:

Timeline and other details: