Authentic Engagement Toolkit

Mayfield Project 2023

Introducing: The Authentic Engagement Toolkit 

This website hosts four tools targeted towards each of the key stakeholder groups outlined below. Together, these tools create a toolkit that supports authentic listening and engagement, and ultimately, JEDI outcomes.  

This Toolkit focuses on four key stakeholder groups:

  1. Designers Of Spaceincluding architects and formal designers as well as informal makers of space.
  2. Designers of Learningincluding teachers and educators.
  3. Communityincluding whānau, family, and the wider community.
  4. Learnersthe students and young people; those at the centre of it all.

This toolkit supports users to have meaningful conversations and engagement about JEDI. It will also support users to apply the information gathered through this engagement to their everyday practice. The objective of the toolkit is to first, support authentic understanding, and second, support implementation of that understanding to support JEDI outcomes in learning environments. 

Each tool is about empowering our learners, educators, designers, and communities with tools to facilitate authentic listening to promote JEDI outcomes through the design of learning environments. 


Authentic Engagement Toolkit

Explore each of the four sections using the links below.


Using The Authentic Engagement Toolkit

This website hosts four tools targeted towards each of the key stakeholder groups outlined above. Together, these tools create a toolkit that supports authentic listening and engagement and ultimately, JEDI outcomes. Depending on your role or interests, one of the following four tools might be best suited to your current situation. We would also encourage you to explore and to draw on resources from all sections of the toolkit. The four sections are:

  • Designers of Space including architects and formal designers as well as informal makers of space.
  • Designers of Learningincluding teachers and educators.
  • Community including whānau, family, and the wider community.
  • Learnersthe students and young people; those at the centre of it all.

Use the buttons at the top of the page to access each of the tools, or you can use the hidden menu at the bottom of your page in the centre to navigate the toolkit.

Read more about the toolkit in our FAQ section below.

Anyone involved in the design of learning environments – educational, pedagogical, social or physical.

Each webpage has a brief explanation of how the tools can be used.

These tools are designed to be used individually and are tailored to be most effective for each stakeholder group. However, you’ll see that there is some overlap so please mix and match to suit your needs!

To support deeper and more authentic interactions, conversations and connections which will support you to promote JEDI in a learning environment near you.