presentations from ignite talks on scale at the Spread and Scale Strategies of Hive NYC Organizations Community Meetup

1. APPROACHES TO SCALE
HIVE NYC JULY MEETUP
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2. INSTITUTE OF PLAY
DANIEL O’KEEFE

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6. IRIDESCENT LEARNING
DEVIN DILLON

8. Innovation
Curiosity Machine is a
digital tool that Iridescent
is using to scale our
curriculum
Target User
Our target scale strategy
is to empower parents
and train
facilitators/teachers to
use Curiosity Machine
with their youth

10. Scaling Curiosity Machine to Out of
School Organizations
• We are developing materials to train out of school
providers on how to implement Curiosity Machine at their
sites
– Special facilitator portals and kits
– Online and in person PDs for using the site
– Developing our website to further allow for running
engineering design challenges with large groups

11. BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
JENNIFER THOMPSON

12. Start here

13. Education
Access
Culture
Inclusion
Space
Stewardship
Goals

14. Drop-in model
◦ Consider when designing
curriculum
Staffing
◦ We love guest hosts and
trainers!
Want to run a program at a branch library?

15. BYO equipment
Connectivity
SNACKS!
Programming at branch libraries

16. Upgrade!
More technology!
Kits and sets!
Training!
The future

17. COMMON SENSE MEDIA
TALI HOROWITZ

18. Approaches to
Spread/Scale

19. Curriculum
•K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship
Curriculum
Digital tools
•Digital Passport
•Digital Compass
•Digital Bytes
•Curriculum iBooks
•Graphite
We provide professional development on
pedagogical practices as a way to scale the
curriculum and digital tools.
Innovations we’re spreading

20. School based teachers/educators
•Subject area specialists
•Tech coordinators/Tech integration
specialists
•Media literacy specialists/Librarians
•Guidance counselors
Afterschool/Informal learning educators
Target users

21. Common Core aligned
Simple and straight forward with room to innovate
Free or low cost
Resources school-based educators adopt

22. Common Core aligned
Varying program models need to be taken into account when
designing resources
• No 1 size fits all
• Consider various audiences
Useful features in designing curriculum

23. Professional development (PD) is critical. PD needs to reflect various
models and should include:
• Practical application of resource
• Recommended practices
• Hands-on activities based on practical applications
• planning time
• The underlying pedagogical practice framing the creation of the resources
Useful features in designing curriculum
continued

24. Easy access to materials
•Digital assets are essential
Active outreach plan
•Active marketing (can’t just think “if we build
it, people will come”)
Online portal role re: scaling strategy

25. CITY LORE
TAL BAR-ZEMER

26. The Kickflip Program
Approaches to spread and scale

27. *
Innovations to Spread:
Program model-
Best practices culled from 3 iterations of Kickflip in a curriculum/ toolkit that provides
everything other organizations need to create a project that helps them harness the
strengths of hard to reach youth populations and to adapt the program to serve their
youth.
Research and Approach-
How does an interest driven, connected learning program such as KICKFLIP impact
students for whom school is not a safe or constructive learning environment? How
does it use their strong identity to support their development and expand their ideas
of their skillsets?
How can similar youth populations can be connected with opportunities to grow their
skill sets, connect with adult mentors invested in their ongoing development, and
access alternative pathways to academic and career success?

28. *
Research-
1- Capture students’ own changing feelings about their capacity to learn and engage in a
program over time
2- Look at the application of students’ focus, determination, and resilience as it applies both
to their sport and to their work in the program.
3- Determine what practices directly contribute to the program success.
4- Articulate how interest driven, connected learning opportunities such as KICKFLIP can
impact students for whom school is not a safe or constructive learning environment and how
similar youth populations can be connected with opportunities to grow their skill sets, connect
with adult mentors invested in their ongoing development, and access alternative pathways
to academic and career success.
5- Explain how projects like coding and game design harness existing assets and help
support growth in new directions

29. *
Curriculum
• Offer our curriculum for this project, as
well as recruitment and retention
strategies with suggestions for their
applications to other youth interest groups
• Meet and plan with adults working with
“difficult to reach” populations and solicit
suggestions and strategies for how
program can be adapted to their youth
• Program Frame and Pedagogy
• Chicago- Detroit- Indigenous youth
skaters upstate

30. *
Next Steps
• Finish this summers program- document and write up
• Hand over day to day operation to HHF- secure ongoing funding and build up their
organizational capacity
• Meet with other educators for ideas on how to adapt program
• Share, spread, and disseminate curriculum and research