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It is designed to foster innovation in local school districts as they implement LCFF. Beginning in 2017, the effort brought together design teams from three California districts—Azusa, Elk Grove, and Oceanside Unified School Districts—to develop solutions to challenges that had been identified in the LCAP development and implementation process. For more information on the project, see [https://lcfftestkitchen.org/](https://lcfftestkitchen.org/) .  \nIntroduction  \nPolicy development is fundamentally a process of negotiation. Legislation or other regulatory guidance often requires the support of a range of stakeholders to actually become policy. The resulting policy is therefore a compilation of interests, all partially represented in a final product that sufficiently satisfies enough key stakeholders to earn support. Too often, however, that product is incoherent, inefficient, and ill designed to meet the needs of the end users—the people or organizations charged with putting the policy into action.  \nThe process that created California’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) is an example of this traditional approach to policy development. Developed to accompany the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the LCAP is a document template in which a district is to articulate its goals, identify the strategies designed to achieve those goals, and describe the resources supporting those strategies. In creating the LCAP template, designers responded to a range of stakeholder priorities for the document; stakeholders sought a tool for promoting strategic planning and budgeting, ensuring authentic community engagement, monitoring progress toward key outcomes, communicating about district plans with parents and other community members, and ensuring that districts receiving funds to support traditionally underserved students in fact allocated resources to support those students. The current template is the result of a process designed to satisfy everyone. But in the end, bloated district plans that stretch to hundreds of pages meet nobody’s needs well (see, for example, Koppich, Humphrey, & Marsh, 2015; and Humphrey et al. , 2017) .  \nThe LCFF Test Kitchen set out to address key policy design and implementation challenges ina different way—by employing an approach called user-centered design. An accompanying brief, Improving LCFF Implementation Through UserCentered Design: Year 1 of the LCFF Test Kitchen , describes the LCFF Test Kitchen project, the process of user-centered design, and the products that have emerged from the work. This brief addresses abroader question: To what extent can user-centered design help us address these policy issues? The pages that follow identify lessons learned over the LCFF Test Kitchen’s first year, and implications fora different approach to education policy.  \nUser-Centered Design Is a Viable Approach to Improving District LCFF Implementation  \nThe LCFF Test Kitchen brought design teams from three districts together to create new approaches to their LCAP development and implementation processes. In Azusa USD, a new animated  \ninfographic aims to inform parents and other community members about how their input contributes to the LCAP’s creation, and how they can become involved. Elk Grove USD has created an electronic school-based LCAP through which site leaders can capture their resource allocation decisions, communicate about them with district leaders, and navigate an internal review process. Oceanside USD has developed spreadsheets that prompt site leaders to articulate the evidence base behind their resource allocation dec","cbCaiqsW8DSsRw6y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqsW8DSsRw6y","pdf",417404,"English","# Introduction\n# User-Centered Design Is a Viable Approach to Improving District LCFF Implementation\n## District prototypes and examples\n## User-centered design process","[{\"question\":\"Why is user-centered design proposed as a pathway for LCFF policy lessons?\",\"answer\":\"Because typical top-down policy development can yield incoherent, inefficient plans that do not meet end-user needs. 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