OWL has helped many districts and schools rethink their strategies and guiding frameworks. Because OWL is so focused on culture shift, it is essential that different stakeholder groups feel a sense of ownership over these aspects of their respective organizations, including having deep input for mission, vision, and value statements, high level strategic plans, or Portraits of a Graduate and Common Instructional Frameworks. Through employing a Design Thinking approach, we help schools and districts create collectively owned strategies that become quickly implemented because of their crowdsourced origins. Some examples of this work include:

>Working with a North Carolina District to update its strategic plan through an intensive co-design process with the community that included in-depth student focus groups and community Design Sprints, which yielded a focus on experiential learning for the district.

>Working with a North Carolina District to help them direct the expenditure of ESSER funds in a way consistent with community voice, then helping them revise their strategic plan with deep community input from several communities in the county.

>Helping a lab school create a Mission, Vision, and Common Instructional Framework that has been guiding its innovative efforts.

>Assisting a Hawaiian charter school in the creation of Instructional Design Principles, a Portrait of a Graduate, and Common Instructional Framework to help create collective efficacy at the school.