在5月3日，超过100名CBE的学生参加了学生声音设计挑战，他们意识到挑战实际上是设计的机会。通过对年度学生声音研讨会的重新设计，来自38所不同的初中、初级中学和高中的76名学生以及来自校长学生咨询委员会的27名学生面对了以下三个挑战之一：

• 我们如何在学校中利用手机作为学习工具？
• 我们如何管理压力，使学生能够更好地学习？
• 我们如何创造一个学校文化，使每个学生都被纳入其中？

在活动开始时，董事帕梅拉·金女士谈到了她对学生作为解决我们最大挑战的问题解决者的信任。首席教育官戴维·史蒂文森也表示同意，他补充说，考虑学生的声音是他作为教育局长工作的核心。在介绍之后，学生们分成了三组来解决其中一个设计挑战。

7年级到12年级的学生通过合作方式共同理解问题，定义需要解决的部分，构思解决挑战的多种方法，并原型化一个他们认为有潜力的解决方案。设计思维框架为学生们提供了一个大纲，让他们与刚刚认识的学生深度合作，全面地深入研究问题。

例如，一组学生通过考虑社交媒体设计挑战，总结了社交媒体的哪些方面使其成为建立联系和人际关系的力量，哪些方面可能干扰学习。他们设计的解决方案是为年轻人提供一系列受社交媒体启发的课程，帮助他们开发负责任的数字公民战略。

另一组学生考虑到当试图建立一个包容性的学校社区时，小团体的伤害有多大。他们认为重新设计学校餐厅，创造出让学生能够结识新朋友的情境，可以为学生之间建立共鸣的机会。

学生声音设计挑战证明了学生们可以共同解决他们面临的问题。鼓励学生参与者将他们的想法带回学校，并与学校管理层分享。也许一些学生的想法很快就会在我们的学校中得到实践！

​On May 3, more than 100 students at the CBE's Student Voice Design Challenge learned that challenges are really just opportunities for design. In a redesign of the annual Student Voice Symposium, 76 students, representing 38 different middle, junior high, and high schools, along with 27 students from the Chief Superintendent’s Student Advisory Councils tackled one of three challenges:

• How might we use cell phones as learning tools in our schools?
• How might we manage stress so students can better learn?
• How might we create a school culture so every student is included?

In the kickoff to the evening, Trustee Pamela King spoke of her belief in students as the problem-solvers of our biggest challenges. Chief Superintendent David Stevenson echoed Trustee King’s belief, adding that considering the voice of students is at the heart of what he does as a superintendent. Following the introduction, the students split off into three groups to tackle one of the design challenges.

Students from Grades 7-12 worked collaboratively to understand the problem, define what needed to be solved, ideate many ways they could address the challenge and prototype one solution that they felt had promise. The design thinking framework provided students with an outline that let them collaborate deeply with students they had only just met, taking a deep look at a problem from all sides.

For example, one group of students unpacked the social media design challenge by considering what aspects of social media make it a force for connection and relationship-building, and which aspects can interfere with learning. The solution they designed was a social media-inspired series of lessons for young people to help them develop responsible digital citizenship strategies.

Another group considered how damaging cliques can be when trying to build an inclusive school community. They thought that redesigning the school cafeteria to engineer situations where students would meet new people could create opportunities to build empathy amongst students.

The Student Voice Design Challenge proved that students can work together to solve problems that they face. Student participants were encouraged to take their idea back to their school and share it with their school administration. Perhaps some of the student ideas will soon be in action in some of our schools!