Bearing Design Cycle

1. Basic research - Basic research is exploratory and often driven by the researcher’s curiosity, musings, interests, or a hunch. It often gives rise to a question that is compelling to study further. What are the benefits to Teaming?
2. Applied research - Applied research is done to solve specific, practical questions; its primary aim is not to gain knowledge for its own sake. What aspects of Teaming could be changed to strengthen teams at my school?
3. Incubation - Incubation refers to the phase in which ideas from the bearing are being evaluated and considered before further action. It's a stage that encourages rolling around the applied research findings in one's mind before developing an implementation plan. We have information about how Teaming can strengthen us. There might be many ways to use this information effectively. Let's give some time to see if we can think of some creative ways it could be implemented.
4. Goal Setting - When ideas from bearings seem ready to move into the professional practice space, the first implementation step should be goal setting. Clearly articulated goals help facilitate growth and evaluate the impact of the ideas that are being implemented. Our goal is to pilot a more effective model for teaming based on our research.
5. Draft a Model - Drafting is the creation of an educational model (practices, patterns, and tools) for use in the classroom and beyond the classroom with colleagues. Drafting is a generative process that should be done in tandem (or shortly after goal setting). Drafting can reuse structures development by others, modify existing structures, or start with novel designs for new structures. We've researched and collaborated about the concept of Teaming. We know what that our goal is to pilot model for teaming based on our research. Let's (re)design a prototype that we can apply to our classroom and our professional collaboration.
6. Formative Testing - Formative testing is collecting data to evaluate the effectiveness of a design and guide any redesign decisions (or the the underlying ideas). Let's try this out in the classroom and in team meetings, and let's record what we see.
7. Evalute and Recommend - The evaluation of the impact of the implementation and the findings from the formative testing, now require decisions about what the next step of the design process is. Does a new design need to be tested, does additional research need to be done, do the ideas need to be incubated further? What do we do with what we have discovered?
8. Deploy - The deployment of an idea, or an educational model, is its transition from a testing state to an operational state. This is how we Team.
9. Disseminate - The dissemination of an idea, or an educational model, is its transition from a small scale implementation, to multiple implementations. We want to spread our findings on Teaming to others.
10. Support - Support are the things that help carry the load, help eliminate stress, and transmit weight. As we Refine Bearings, we should plan ways to leverage each other and the system to support the ongoing implementation while maintaining balance.
11. Feedback Loop - Continuation of the design cycle, by returning to step 1, with additional knowledge and experience of what works (or doesn't) for one additional bearing. What idea or Bearing can we refine next?