The New York Times Teaching Project is a year-long initiative bringing together teachers from around the country to design journalism curricula. I think we can incorporate at least their deliverable workflow into the Teacher Table to create a true systems of participatory design and community-based feedback into Plot Twisters' products.
The NYT Teaching Project will start with a virutal conference happening this July, where teachers will come together to share their experiences, missions, and ultimately start designing journalism based projects that they will teach during the 2020-2021 school year. Throughout the year, they will have community-oriented discussions and follow-ups to reflect on their projects.
Next summer, these teachers will reunite and put their collective experience together to design a journalism curriculum to be shared for any teacher to use.
We'd essentially copy the structure, using Plot Twisters' tools as the main inspiration instead of journalism. It's a way for PT support teachers using the product while learning more about classroom and bureaucratic constraints.
What if we can collaborate with each teacher to incorporate at least one of Plot Twisters' tools somewhere in their curriculum?
What if we can create a community around changing these structures (the way we talk about projects, role models, and parent-teacher conferences) throughout the year?
This can be a way for us, a team without much curriculum design experience, to put out a tested curriculum designed by experts.