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The document discusses a tool for evaluating and positioning ideas called the Re-Visioning tool. The tool provides qualities like an idea being compelling, good for stakeholders, implementable, and sustainable to test if an idea will gain momentum and serve its purpose. Leaders can use feedback to continue adapting the idea so it fits the context and intended purpose.

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Re Visioning

The document discusses a tool for evaluating and positioning ideas called the Re-Visioning tool. The tool provides qualities like an idea being compelling, good for stakeholders, implementable, and sustainable to test if an idea will gain momentum and serve its purpose. Leaders can use feedback to continue adapting the idea so it fits the context and intended purpose.

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Re-Visioning

An Idea into Action Project Tool for Evaluating and Positioning an Idea
Key Audience: Leaders of Organizations, Leaders of Large Change Initiatives

Overview of Idea to Action Project: When exploring the complex work of bringing ideas into action, the core question for this
research team is what components of the process might reveal themselves as “good bets” for more successfully translating ideas
into sustained action. Discover early resources from the project which give leaders and educators some concepts and questions to
consider in change processes.

Purpose: When it comes to creating change, having a good idea (principle, framework, set of practices, etc.) is often just the
beginning. How do we know that an idea will gain momentum and serve well? In fact, it's typical for ideas to require some adapting
and adjusting to the setting. To evaluate whether an idea will gain momentum and serve well, use the qualities listed below to test
it. Keep in mind that the qualities listed are not exhaustive, and that an idea does not have to meet all the qualities listed. Focus on
a few key qualities that make sense for the idea and the setting.

The idea is compelling.


Here are some questions that people think about for this quality:
Is it relevant for all involved? ◆ Is it salient, capturing attention easily? ◆ Is it a game-changer – interesting, provocative,
etc. – in some way? ◆ Is it an important adoption for your organization? ◆ Does it bring a new pattern of thought and
practice to the context?

The idea is good for me, for us.


Here are some questions that people think about for this quality:
Does it address a clear gap or need?◆ Does it offer a relatively better way toward a specified goal? ◆ Does it offer clear
value for the people adopting the idea? ◆ Does it have tradeoffs that are considered acceptable? Can it be personalized to
be more relevant or compelling?

The idea is implementable given time, resources, personnel, etc.


Here are some questions that people think about for this quality:
Is it elegant, i.e. simple enough for everyone involved to understand it? ◆ Is it doable, given the resources and support
available? ◆ Is it compatible with existing practices, values and norms? ◆ Does it offer opportunities for rapid prototyping
so that people can experiment with it?

The idea is sustainable.


Here are some questions that people think about for this quality:
Does it offer straightforward ways for getting feedback without complicated procedures? ◆ Does it offer observable results?
◆ Is it scalable over time and across group sizes? ◆ Is it easily integrated into existing practices? ◆ Is it adaptive enough
to work in different contexts?

Once the key qualities of the idea have been identified, move on to adjusting, adapting, and tuning the idea to fit the context. Use
feedback to continue to re-vision the idea so that it is compelling for the intended purpose and context.

The “Re-Visioning” tool was developed by the Idea to Action initiative at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, with Independent Schools Victoria (AU).
Questions? Email [email protected].

© 2019 President and Fellows of Harvard College and Project Zero. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0
International License (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows users to share this work with others, but it cannot be used commercially. To reference this work, please use the following: The Re-Visioning tool was developed
by Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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