Empathy interviews became a widely adopted data-gathering technique for understanding stakeholder perspectives on problems¶

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q2 i? District teams reported that empathy interviews with teachers and students transformed how they gathered data about problems. → Bugler 2021

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Bugler 2021¶

Bugler, D. (2021). School District Collaboration: Lessons From Districts Participating in California Education Partners' California Language & Learning Initiative (CALLI). WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED616075

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Participants reported learning empathy interviews at an early convening and adopting them broadly, including during COVID to learn why students were not logging into class and why students earned Ds and Fs. Perceptions from interviews; no effect size.

""Before, we had never even heard of empathy interviews," said one team member. "Now, empathy interviews are always something that comes up as a potential way to gather data.""

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