Students will launch the GroundWork Leadership Lab by examining local history and present-day community evidence, building shared agreements for collaborative leadership, and drafting initial evidence-based questions and concern statements that prepare them for community listening and problem-finding in the next phase.

Students will gather firsthand and source-based community evidence, document patterns across interviews and observations, and synthesize what they learn into an empathy artifact and evidence-based How Might We statement grounded in collective leadership.

Students will turn research from interviews, source analysis, and community observations into multiple campaign or service concepts, test those ideas through critique and assumption-checking, and select one evidence-based direction to carry forward as a design brief and low-fidelity concept kit.

Students will refine their community campaign or service concept through two fast feedback-and-revision cycles, document how user evidence shaped design choices, and prepare a stakeholder-ready prototype story that connects history, community voice, iteration, and next steps.

Students will present their community change campaign, research evidence, and design decisions to families, community partners, district and school guests, gather authentic audience feedback on next steps and impact, and close the project with a structured reflection on leadership, teamwork, and continued community action.